Where does Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. ranks #1,337 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 Filtration IP, Inc. hold?

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. holds 316 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.0 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%).

What technology areas does Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. focus on?

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.'s top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 288 patents, ranking #8 of 3,536 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +60% 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 Filtration IP, Inc.'s patents?

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.'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 Cummins Filtration IP, 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

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 316 granted patents across 59 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cummins ranks #1,337 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 316 patents across 59 technology areas.

#1,337
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.0/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1337 · US Corporation #1,337 · 316 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 316 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,337/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH On-Bright (Shanghai)
CPC-WIDE B01D · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (±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 64.0 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 19.9 pts (31%) Velocity 8.2 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Royal Bank of Canada · near

64
Cummins Filtration IP · this assignee

64
Kyocera SLD Laser · near

64
Fox Factory · near

64
Max-Planck-Gesellsch… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cummins's Innovation Score is 64.0/100 (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 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 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 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.

How Cummins's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. received 184 grants versus 115 in 2015–2019 (+60% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 49 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 20. Lead class B01D accounts for 91.1% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH (#1,333) and Manufacturing Resources International, Inc. (#1,341).

Cummins's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. moved from 93 to 114 grants (1.23x 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 #745. See the growth leaderboard.

Harman Becker Aut…

317
Massachusetts Mut…

317
Qisda

317
University of Kan…

317
On-bright (Shangh…

316
THE University OF…

316
Cummins Filtratio… ◀

316
III Holdings 12

315
Manufacturing Res…

315

What this shows Cummins holds 316 patents at rank #1,337, 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 #1,337 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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 B01D (Separation), Cummins ranks #8 of 3,536 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. 64 Fox Factory, Inc. 64 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. 64 Royal Bank of Canada 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Unify GmbH & Co. KG 18.2 avg Arm Limited 18.2 avg Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc. 18.2 avg Sequenom, Inc. 18.2 avg

Cummins'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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Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	6.3%
2016	20	6.3%
2017	23	7.3%
2018	29	9.2%
2019	23	7.3%
2020	36	11.4%
2021	34	10.8%
2022	49	15.5%
2023	29	9.2%
2024	36	11.4%
2025partial year	17	5.4%

Which technologies does Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. patent most?

B01D - Separation 288

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 108

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 85

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 19

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 18

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 15

B04B - Centrifuges 14

F16N - Lubricating 13

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 10

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 6

Top 15 of 59 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 Filtration IP, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.'s lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 91.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #1,337 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. against Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.0/100 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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