Where does Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh ranks #8,347 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh hold?

Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh's Innovation Score?

Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh's recent grant velocity is +54% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh's patents?

Caterpillar Energy Solutions 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 Caterpillar Energy Solutions 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

Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh focus on?

Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh's top technology area is Y02T (CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION) with 24 patents. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: Y02T (CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Caterpillar ranks #8,347 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 24 technology areas.

#8,347
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8347 · Foreign Corporation #8,347 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,347/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Caliper Life Sciences
CPC-FOCUS Y02T · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caliper Life Sciences, 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
Caterpillar Energy S… · this assignee

51
Cboe Exchange · near

51
Shenzhen Intellirock… · near

51
Alclear · near

51
The Reliable Automat… · near

51
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #8,347 of 50,000; Innovation Score 51.4/100 sits in the top 11% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh has been granted 38 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh at #8,347 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 24 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.9 claims per patent with primary concentration in Y02T (CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION). As a Foreign Corporation, Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Caterpillar sits between Cyclingdeal USA, Inc. (38 patents, rank #8,348) and Coelux S.r.l. (38 patents, rank #8,356) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 51.4/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 20 grants, compared with 13 in the 2015–2019 window, a +54% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh's 14.9 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 24 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Cyclingdeal USA

38
Caliper Life Scie…

38
Cardinalcommerce

38
Carl Zeiss SMS

38
Caterpillar Motor…

38
Champion Link Int…

38
Clarios Germany &…

38
Coelux S r l

38
Caterpillar Energ… ◀

38

What this shows Caterpillar holds 38 patents at rank #8,352, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Caterpillar

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,352 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Cboe Exchange, Inc. 51 Shenzhen Intellirocks Tech. Co., Ltd. 51 The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc. 51 Alclear, Llc 51

Caterpillar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	7.9%
2017	4	10.5%
2018	3	7.9%
2019	3	7.9%
2020	1	2.6%
2021	4	10.5%
2022	3	7.9%
2023	2	5.3%
2024	10	26.3%
2025partial year	5	13.2%

Which technologies does Caterpillar Energy Solutions Gmbh patent most?

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 24

F02B - INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL 20

F02D - CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES 16

F02M - SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF 11

F02P - IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES 9

F02F - CYLINDERS, PISTONS OR CASINGS, FOR COMBUSTION ENGINES; ARRANGEMENTS OF SEALINGS IN COMBUSTION ENGINES 8

H01T - SPARK GAPS; OVERVOLTAGE ARRESTERS USING SPARK GAPS; SPARKING PLUGS; CORONA DEVICES; GENERATING IONS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO NON-ENCLOSED GASES 7

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 5

B25B - TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING 5

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 4

F01P - COOLING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; COOLING OF INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES 3

F01M - LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING 2

B23P - METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS 2

B65D - CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES 2

E04B - GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS 2

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,347

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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