Where does Bombardier Transportation GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bombardier Transportation GmbH ranks #2,554 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 Bombardier Transportation GmbH hold?

Bombardier Transportation GmbH holds 152 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is Bombardier Transportation GmbH's Innovation Score?

Bombardier Transportation GmbH has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bombardier Transportation GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bombardier Transportation GmbH's recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Bombardier Transportation GmbH's patents?

Bombardier Transportation GmbH's patents average 14.9 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 Bombardier Transportation GmbH 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 Foreign Corporation

Bombardier Transportation GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Bombardier Transportation GmbH focus on?

Bombardier Transportation GmbH's top technology area is 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) with 57 patents. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 152 granted patents across 88 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: B60L (Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic SU).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bombardier ranks #2,554 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 152 patents across 88 technology areas.

#2,554
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2554 · Foreign Corporation #2,554 · 152 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 152 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,554/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adeia Semiconductor…
CPC-WIDE B60L · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adeia Semiconductor Bonding Technologies 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amcor Flexibles… · near

57
Bombardier Transport… · this assignee

57
Fasteners for Retail · near

57
Form Energy · near

57
Temptime · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bombardier's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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.

How Bombardier's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bombardier Transportation GmbH received 66 grants versus 84 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 8. Lead class B60L accounts for 37.5% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Telenav, Inc. (#2,550) and Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc. (#2,558).

Bombardier's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bombardier Transportation GmbH moved from 42 to 36 grants (0.86x 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 #1,645. See the growth leaderboard.

Telenav

153
Universite Grenob…

153
UniversitÉ Paris…

153
Adeia Semiconduct…

152
Fudan University

152
Guardian Industri…

152
Hideep

152
Intra-cellular Th…

152
Bombardier Transp… ◀

152

What this shows Bombardier holds 152 patents at rank #2,554, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bombardier

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,554 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60L (Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Fasteners for Retail, Inc. 57 Temptime Corporation 57 Form Energy, Inc. 57 Amcor Flexibles North America, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Konecranes Global Corporation 14.9 avg Intelligent Energy Limited 14.9 avg BorgWarner Inc. 14.9 avg Commissariat A L'energie Atomique ET AUX Energies Alternatives 14.9 avg

Bombardier's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Bombardier Transportation GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	12.5%
2016	12	7.9%
2017	29	19.1%
2018	12	7.9%
2019	12	7.9%
2020	18	11.8%
2021	12	7.9%
2022	18	11.8%
2023	10	6.6%
2024	8	5.3%
2025partial year	2	1.3%

Which technologies does Bombardier Transportation GmbH patent most?

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 57

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 55

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 32

B60M - Power Supply Lines, AND Devices Along Rails, FOR Electrically- Propelled Vehicles 26

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 25

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 23

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 21

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 18

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 9

B61B - Railway SYSTEMS; Equipment Therefor NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 9

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

E01B - Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds 6

Top 15 of 88 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,554

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

57.0 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

Bombardier Transportation GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bombardier Transportation GmbH's lead technology class is B60L (Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic SU), 37.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60L
Ranked #2,554 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bombardier Transportation GmbH against Telenav, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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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