Where does Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC ranks #6,122 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 Trimble Control Technologies LLC hold?

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% 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 Trimble Control Technologies LLC focus on?

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC's top technology area is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting) with 49 patents, ranking #22 of 348 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Trimble Control Technologies LLC's patents?

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC's patents average 20.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC

Q: How is the Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies 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 PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 18 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: E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Caterpillar ranks #6,122 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 18 technology areas.

#6,122
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6122 · US Corporation #6,122 · 55 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,122/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CaaStle
CPC-FOCUS E02F · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CaaStle, 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 43.7 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 13.9 pts (32%) Velocity 2.6 pts (6%) Breadth 15.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Caterpillar Trimble… · this assignee

44
Hefei Reliance Memory · near

44
iNtRON Biotechnology · near

44
Linear Labs · near

44
Taylor Made Group · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Caterpillar's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 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 Trimble Control Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 89.1% of grants classified under E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Caterpillar sits between China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co., Ltd. and Covestro (Netherlands) B.V..

Caterpillar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC moved from 23 to 9 grants (0.39x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

China Tobacco Yun…

55
Crocus Technology

55
Caastle

55
Cardinal IG

55
China Agricultura…

55
Clevx

55
Cold Spring Harbo…

55
Covestro (Netherl…

55
Caterpillar Trimb… ◀

55

What this shows Caterpillar holds 55 patents at rank #6,126, 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 #6,126 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E02F (Dredging)

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 E02F (Dredging), Caterpillar ranks #22 of 348 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

iNtRON Biotechnology, Inc. 44 Taylor Made Group, LLC 44 Linear Labs, Inc. 44 Hefei Reliance Memory Limited 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.3 here).

Arbutus Biopharma Corporation 20.3 avg SK Hynix Nand Product Solutions Corp. 20.3 avg Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company 20.3 avg Kepler Computing Inc. 20.3 avg

Caterpillar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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 Trimble Control Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.6%
2016	4	7.3%
2017	5	9.1%
2018	10	18.2%
2019	9	16.4%
2020	7	12.7%
2021	7	12.7%
2022	5	9.1%
2023	4	7.3%
2025partial year	2	3.6%

Which technologies does Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC patent most?

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 49

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 19

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 13

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 10

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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 2

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

Top 15 of 18 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 Trimble Control Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC's lead technology class is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting), 89.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E02F
Ranked #6,122 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC against China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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