Where does Allison Transmission, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Allison Transmission, Inc. ranks #1,093 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Allison Transmission, Inc. hold?

Allison Transmission, Inc. holds 390 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is Allison Transmission, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Allison Transmission, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Allison Transmission, Inc. focus on?

Allison Transmission, Inc.'s top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 298 patents, ranking #12 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

Is Allison Transmission, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Allison Transmission, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -36% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Allison Transmission, Inc.'s patents?

Allison Transmission, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Allison Transmission, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Allison Transmission, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 390 granted patents across 64 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Allison ranks #1,093 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 390 patents across 64 technology areas.

#1,093
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.8/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1093 · US Corporation #1,093 · 390 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 390 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,093/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ademco
CPC-WIDE F16H · 64 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ademco Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Allison’s 61.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 20.6 pts (33%) Velocity 4.6 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allison Transmission · this assignee

62
Cooper-Standard… · near

62
Endress+Hauser Flowtec · near

62
Panduit · near

62
SambaNova Systems · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Allison's Innovation Score is 61.8/100 (top 3% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Allison?

Each dot is one of Allison’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Allison’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Allison vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Allison's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Allison Transmission, Inc. received 145 grants versus 226 in 2015–2019 (-36% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 51 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 23. Lead class F16H accounts for 76.4% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-medical Electronics Co., Ltd. (#1,089) and Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. (#1,097).

Allison's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Allison Transmission, Inc. moved from 116 to 80 grants (0.69x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,184. See the growth leaderboard.

Shenzhen Mindray…

391
West

391
Ademco

390
Alliance for Sust…

390
Gen-probe Incorpo…

390
Mitsubishi Jidosh…

390
Allison Transmiss… ◀

390
KYB

389
Lutron

389

What this shows Allison holds 390 patents at rank #1,093, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Allison

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,093 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Allison's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Allison, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), Allison ranks #12 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Panduit Corp. 62 Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG 62 SambaNova Systems, Inc. 62 Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC 19.3 avg Senseware, Inc. 19.3 avg Monolithic 3D Inc. 19.4 avg Amkor Technology, Inc. 19.3 avg

Allison's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

62 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Allison Transmission, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	7.7%
2016	46	11.8%
2017	48	12.3%
2018	51	13.1%
2019	51	13.1%
2020	42	10.8%
2021	23	5.9%
2022	30	7.7%
2023	27	6.9%
2024	23	5.9%
2025partial year	19	4.9%

Which technologies does Allison Transmission, Inc. patent most?

F16H - Gearing 298

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 93

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 80

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 75

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 68

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 64

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 33

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 24

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 13

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 12

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 11

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 11

Top 15 of 64 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Allison Transmission, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Allison Transmission, Inc.'s lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 76.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #1,093 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Allison Transmission, Inc. against Shenzhen Mindray Bio-medical Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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