Where does Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. ranks #933 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 Paving Products Inc. hold?

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. holds 476 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 115 technology areas.

What is Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.7 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 Paving Products Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +90% 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 Paving Products Inc.'s patents?

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.'s patents average 17.4 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 Paving Products 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

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. focus on?

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.'s top technology area is E01C (Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair) with 383 patents, ranking #1 of 311 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 115 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 476 granted patents across 115 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: E01C (Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Caterpillar ranks #933 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 476 patents across 115 technology areas.

#933
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.7/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R933 · US Corporation #933 · 476 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 476 grants
TOP-DECILE #933/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chicago Mercantile…
CPC-WIDE E01C · 115 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chicago Mercantile Exchange 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 63.7 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 21.3 pts (33%) Velocity 6.9 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Huazhong University… · near

64
International Truck… · near

64
STMicroelectronics… · near

64
AWI Licensing · near

64
Caterpillar Paving… · this assignee

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Caterpillar's Innovation Score is 63.7/100 (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 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 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 Paving Products Inc. received 298 grants versus 157 in 2015–2019 (+90% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 79 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 17. Lead class E01C accounts for 80.5% of the portfolio across 115 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (#929) and Landmark Graphics Corporation (#937).

Caterpillar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. moved from 171 to 178 grants (1.04x 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 #1,079. See the growth leaderboard.

Schweitzer Engine…

480
The Penn State Re…

480
Aristocrat

478
United States Pos…

477
Chicago Mercantil…

476
Nant Holdings IP

476
Stratasys

476
Caterpillar Pavin… ◀

476
Landmark Graphics

474

What this shows Caterpillar holds 476 patents at rank #933, 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 #933 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E01C (Construction OF)

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 E01C (Construction OF), Caterpillar ranks #1 of 311 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

AWI Licensing LLC 64 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 64 STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS 64 International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. 17.4 avg Mediatek Inc. 17.4 avg Coherus BioSciences, Inc. 17.4 avg Lehigh University 17.4 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 Paving Products Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	7.8%
2016	17	3.6%
2017	23	4.8%
2018	29	6.1%
2019	51	10.7%
2020	51	10.7%
2021	69	14.5%
2022	51	10.7%
2023	79	16.6%
2024	48	10.1%
2025partial year	21	4.4%

Which technologies does Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. patent most?

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 383

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 45

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 43

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 37

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 29

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 26

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 24

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 24

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 23

F16H - Gearing 23

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 23

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 20

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 18

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 18

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

Top 15 of 115 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.'s lead technology class is E01C (Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair), 80.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E01C
Ranked #933 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. against Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.7/100 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

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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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