Where does Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC ranks #4,755 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 Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC hold?

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC holds 73 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC's Innovation Score?

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC has an Innovation Score of 64.3 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 Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC's recent grant velocity is +269% 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 Global Mining Equipment LLC's patents?

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC's patents average 17.8 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 Global Mining Equipment LLC 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

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC

Q: What technology areas does Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC focus on?

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 50 patents, ranking #71 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 73 granted patents across 50 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Caterpillar ranks #4,755 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 73 patents across 50 technology areas.

#4,755
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.3/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +269%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4755 · US Corporation #4,755 · 73 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 73 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,755/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH C & E Fein
CPC-WIDE E21B · 50 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +269% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: C. & E. Fein GMBH (±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 Caterpillar’s 64.3 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 14.9 pts (23%) Velocity 13.7 pts (21%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Qatar Foundation… · near

64
Caterpillar Global… · this assignee

64
Rohr · near

64
Goodrich · near

64
Hunan Brunp… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Caterpillar's Innovation Score is 64.3/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Caterpillar?

Each dot is one of Caterpillar’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). Caterpillar’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Caterpillar's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC received 48 grants versus 13 in 2015–2019 (+269% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 13 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 1. Lead class E21B accounts for 68.5% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: C&D Zodiac, Inc. (#4,753) and Copeland LP (#4,761).

Caterpillar's three-year grant acceleration

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC shows 35 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

C&D Zodiac

73
C & E Fein

73
Canon Denshi

73
Causam Energy

73
Clearmotion

73
Concert Pharmaceu…

73
Cook Biotech Inco…

73
Copeland

73
Caterpillar Globa… ◀

73

What this shows Caterpillar holds 73 patents at rank #4,757, 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 #4,757 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Caterpillar ranks #71 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Rohr, Inc. 64 Qatar Foundation FOR Education, Science AND Community Development 64 Hunan Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Goodrich Corporation 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Aurrion, Inc. 17.8 avg Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd. 17.8 avg Festool GMBH 17.8 avg Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd. 17.8 avg

Caterpillar'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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Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.1%
2016	3	4.1%
2017	2	2.7%
2018	1	1.4%
2019	4	5.5%
2020	5	6.8%
2021	8	11.0%
2022	13	17.8%
2023	11	15.1%
2024	11	15.1%
2025partial year	12	16.4%

Which technologies does Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 50

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 10

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

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 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 3

B60M - Power Supply Lines, AND Devices Along Rails, FOR Electrically- Propelled Vehicles 3

E01F - Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 2

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

Top 15 of 50 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

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 68.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #4,755 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC against C&D Zodiac, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.3/100 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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