Where does Cummins Enterprise LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cummins Enterprise LLC ranks #10,299 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 Cummins Enterprise LLC hold?

Cummins Enterprise LLC holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Cummins Enterprise LLC's Innovation Score?

Cummins Enterprise LLC has an Innovation Score of 37.7 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cummins Enterprise LLC focus on?

Cummins Enterprise LLC's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 26 patents, ranking #261 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cummins Enterprise LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cummins Enterprise LLC's recent grant velocity is +800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cummins Enterprise LLC's patents?

Cummins Enterprise LLC's patents average 16.2 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 Cummins Enterprise 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Cummins Enterprise LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cummins ranks #10,299 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 15 technology areas.

#10,299
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.7/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10299 · US Corporation #10,299 · 30 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,299/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cornami
CPC-FOCUS H01M · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cornami, 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 Cummins’s 37.7 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 11.9 pts (32%) Velocity 2.4 pts (6%) Breadth 13.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cummins Enterprise · this assignee

38
Everlight · near

38
ResMed R&D Germany · near

38
Roxtec AB · near

38
Sync-rx · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cummins's Innovation Score is 37.7/100 (top 43% 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 Cummins?

Each dot is one of Cummins’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). Cummins’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cummins's grants concentrate

Cummins Enterprise LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 86.7% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Cummins sits between Cornami, Inc. and DOMPÈ Farmaceutici S.P.A..

Cummins's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cummins Enterprise LLC moved from 22 to 8 grants (0.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Cornami

30
Corner Star

30
Crestovo Holdings

30
Cue Biopharma

30
Dayco Europe S R L

30
DG International…

30
DN Solutions

30
DOMPÈ Farmaceutic…

30
Cummins Enterprise ◀

30

What this shows Cummins holds 30 patents at rank #10,300, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cummins

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,300 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cummins, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01M (Processes OR Means), Cummins ranks #261 of 2,332 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

ResMed R&D Germany GmbH 38 Sync-rx Ltd. 38 Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. 38 Roxtec AB 38

Cummins's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2019–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cummins Enterprise LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	10.0%
2020	14	46.7%
2021	5	16.7%
2022	4	13.3%
2023	3	10.0%
2024	1	3.3%

Which technologies does Cummins Enterprise LLC patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 26

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 24

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

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

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

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 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Cummins Enterprise LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cummins Enterprise LLC's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 86.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #10,299 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cummins Enterprise LLC against Cornami, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.7/100 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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