Where does Arctic Cat Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arctic Cat Inc. ranks #2,873 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 Arctic Cat Inc. hold?

Arctic Cat Inc. holds 133 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Arctic Cat Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Arctic Cat Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.1 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Arctic Cat Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arctic Cat Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Arctic Cat Inc.'s patents?

Arctic Cat Inc.'s patents average 17.5 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 Arctic Cat 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

Arctic Cat Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Arctic Cat Inc. focus on?

Arctic Cat Inc.'s top technology area is 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 ) with 52 patents. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 133 granted patents across 38 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Arctic ranks #2,873 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 133 patents across 38 technology areas.

#2,873
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.1/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2873 · US Corporation #2,873 · 133 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 133 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,873/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alkermes Pharma…
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 38 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hisense Visual… · near

64
Arctic Cat · this assignee

64
American Regent · near

64
Largan Precision · near

64
Weatherford… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arctic's Innovation Score is 64.1/100 (top 2% 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.

Where Arctic's grants concentrate

Arctic Cat Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 39.1% of grants classified under 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 Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (30 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Arctic sits between Wayne Fueling Systems LLC and Duracell U.S. Operations, Inc..

Arctic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Arctic Cat Inc. moved from 29 to 65 grants (2.24x 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 #158. See the growth leaderboard.

Wayne Fueling Sys…

134
Andritz

133
Alkermes Pharma I…

133
Alpha and Omega S…

133
BBY Solutions

133
Beijing Sensetime…

133
DB Hitek

133
Duracell U S Oper…

133
Arctic Cat ◀

133

What this shows Arctic holds 133 patents at rank #2,873, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arctic

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,873 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Arctic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

American Regent, Inc. 64 Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC 64 Largan Precision Co., Ltd. 64 Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH 17.5 avg Vestas Wind Systems A/S 17.5 avg Merck Patent GmbH 17.5 avg ST. Jude Medical International Holding S.Á R.L. 17.5 avg

Arctic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Arctic Cat Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.3%
2016	4	3.0%
2017	5	3.8%
2018	4	3.0%
2019	4	3.0%
2020	12	9.0%
2021	13	9.8%
2022	13	9.8%
2023	22	16.5%
2024	30	22.6%
2025partial year	23	17.3%

Which technologies does Arctic Cat Inc. patent most?

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 52

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 49

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 40

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 40

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 28

F16H - Gearing 23

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 22

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 19

B62K - CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like 18

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 13

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 12

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 12

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 12

Top 15 of 38 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,873

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

64.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Arctic Cat Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arctic Cat Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 39.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #2,873 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arctic Cat Inc. against Wayne Fueling Systems LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.1/100 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

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