Where does Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG ranks #8,348 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 Motoren GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 45.7 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 25 patents, ranking #281 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 17.2 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 Motoren GmbH & Co. KG 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 Motoren GmbH & Co. KG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 29 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Caterpillar ranks #8,348 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 29 technology areas.

#8,348
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.7/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8348 · Foreign Corporation #8,348 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,348/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caliper Life Sciences
CPC-FOCUS Y02T · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% 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.

How Caterpillar’s 45.7 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 12.7 pts (28%) Velocity 3.6 pts (8%) Breadth 19.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Endotronix · near

46
Idac Holdings · near

46
AC Immune · near

46
Caterpillar Motoren… · this assignee

46
Pandora A/S · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Caterpillar's Innovation Score is 45.7/100 (top 23% 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 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 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.

Where Caterpillar's grants concentrate

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 65.8% of grants classified under Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Caterpillar sits between Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. and Comenity LLC.

Caterpillar's three-year grant acceleration

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Caliper Life Scie…

38
Cardinalcommerce

38
Carl Zeiss SMS

38
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38
Champion Link Int…

38
Clarios Germany &…

38
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Comenity

38
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38

What this shows Caterpillar holds 38 patents at rank #8,353, 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 #8,353 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). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Caterpillar ranks #281 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

AC Immune SA 46 Pandora A/S 46 Endotronix, Inc. 46 Idac Holdings, Inc. 46

Caterpillar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 Motoren GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.9%
2016	4	10.5%
2017	9	23.7%
2018	4	10.5%
2019	5	13.2%
2020	3	7.9%
2021	3	7.9%
2022	2	5.3%
2023	2	5.3%
2024	2	5.3%
2025partial year	1	2.6%

Which technologies does Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 25

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 21

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 13

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 13

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 6

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 5

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 1

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 1

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 29 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 Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 65.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #8,348 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG against Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.7/100 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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