Where does Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. ranks #11,593 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 Underground Mining Pty Ltd. hold?

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% 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 Underground Mining Pty Ltd. focus on?

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s top technology area is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting) with 18 patents, ranking #40 of 348 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Is Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +113% 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 Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s patents?

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s patents average 18.2 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 Underground Mining Pty Ltd. 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 Underground Mining Pty Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 28 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: E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Caterpillar ranks #11,593 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 28 technology areas.

#11,593
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +113%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11593 · Foreign Corporation #11,593 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,593/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CaptionCall
CPC-FOCUS E02F · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +113% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CaptionCall, LLC (±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 56.6 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 11.4 pts (20%) Velocity 15.6 pts (28%) Breadth 18.7 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Coinbase · near

57
Gwangju Institute… · near

57
Caterpillar… · this assignee

57
Liebherr Machines… · near

57
Lutron · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Caterpillar's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 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 Underground Mining Pty Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Caterpillar sits between CPC Corporation, Taiwan and Chan Li Machinery Co., Ltd..

Caterpillar's three-year grant acceleration

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

CPC Taiwan

26
Captioncall

26
Cardiac Assist Ho…

26
Caroma Industries

26
Centre Firearms

26
Centre Luxembourg…

26
Centre for Addict…

26
Chan Li Machinery

26
Caterpillar Under… ◀

26

What this shows Caterpillar holds 26 patents at rank #11,597, 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 #11,597 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 #40 of 348 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA 57 Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. 57 Coinbase, Inc. 57 Gwangju Institute OF Science AND Technology 57

Caterpillar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 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.

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Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	7.7%
2017	1	3.8%
2018	2	7.7%
2019	3	11.5%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	2	7.7%
2023	9	34.6%
2024	3	11.5%
2025partial year	1	3.8%

Which technologies does Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. patent most?

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 18

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

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 4

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 4

E21F - Safety Devices, Transport, Filling-up, Rescue, Ventilation, OR Draining IN OR OF Mines OR Tunnels 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 3

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

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

B60D - Vehicle Connections 1

Top 15 of 28 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 Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd.'s lead technology class is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E02F
Ranked #11,593 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. against CPC Corporation, Taiwan, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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