Where does Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH ranks #2,784 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 Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH hold?

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH holds 138 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's Innovation Score?

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH has an Innovation Score of 57.6 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH focus on?

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's top technology area is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing) with 118 patents, ranking #5 of 302 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's patents?

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's patents average 15.9 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 Foreign Corporation

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH

Q: How is the Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH 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 - 138 granted patents across 56 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: A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Claas ranks #2,784 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 138 patents across 56 technology areas.

#2,784
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.6/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2784 · Foreign Corporation #2,784 · 138 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 138 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,784/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avigilon
CPC-WIDE A01D · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avigilon Corporation (±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 Claas’s 57.6 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 17.0 pts (30%) Velocity 6.1 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chicony · near

58
Omega · near

58
The Raymond · near

58
Claas Selbstfahrende… · this assignee

58
Cricut · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Claas's Innovation Score is 57.6/100 (top 5% 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 Claas?

Each dot is one of Claas’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). Claas’s own 15.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Claas's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH received 56 grants versus 74 in 2015–2019 (-24% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 22 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 7. Lead class A01D accounts for 85.5% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. (#2,780) and Dynamics Inc. (#2,788).

Claas's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH moved from 35 to 32 grants (0.91x 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 #1,429. See the growth leaderboard.

Spirit Aerosystems

139
Avigilon

138
Cal-comp & Commun…

138
Calsonic Kansei

138
Conversant Intell…

138
Divx

138
Dell Software

138
Dynamics

138
Claas Selbstfahre… ◀

138

What this shows Claas holds 138 patents at rank #2,784, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Claas

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,784 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01D (Harvesting)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Claas's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Claas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01D (Harvesting), Claas ranks #5 of 302 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Cricut, Inc. 58 The Raymond Corporation 58 Omega SA 58 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Stellenbosch University 15.9 avg Leupold & Stevens, Inc. 15.9 avg Cambium Networks Ltd 15.9 avg THE Hillman Group, Inc. 15.8 avg

Claas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	15.9%
2016	15	10.9%
2017	19	13.8%
2018	7	5.1%
2019	11	8.0%
2020	11	8.0%
2021	13	9.4%
2022	13	9.4%
2023	10	7.2%
2024	9	6.5%
2025partial year	8	5.8%

Which technologies does Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH patent most?

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 118

A01F - Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce 42

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 18

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 4

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

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

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 4

Top 15 of 56 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

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH's lead technology class is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing), 85.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01D
Ranked #2,784 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH against Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.6/100 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.

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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

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

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