Where does Cummins Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cummins Inc. ranks #365 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 Inc. hold?

Cummins Inc. holds 1,191 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 145 technology areas.

What is Cummins Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cummins Inc. has an Innovation Score of 68.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Cummins Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +54% 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 Inc.'s patents?

Cummins Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 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 Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Cummins Inc. focus on?

Cummins Inc.'s top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 635 patents. Grants appear in 145 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,191 granted patents across 145 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cummins ranks #365 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,191 patents across 145 technology areas.

#365
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.6/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R365 · US Corporation #365 · 1,191 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #365/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canon Medical Systems
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 145 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canon Medical Systems 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essenlix · near

69
Cummins · this assignee

69
Ii-vi Delaware · near

69
Aristocrat · near

69
Digital Global Systems · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cummins's Innovation Score is 68.6/100 (top 1% 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.

How Cummins's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cummins Inc. received 650 grants versus 422 in 2015–2019 (+54% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 151 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 67. Lead class Y02T accounts for 53.3% of the portfolio across 145 subclasses. Volume neighbours: X Development LLC (#361) and Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (#369).

Cummins's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cummins Inc. moved from 341 to 394 grants (1.16x 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 #859. See the growth leaderboard.

X Development

1,197
Altera

1,196
Chevron U

1,194
Canon Medical Sys…

1,191
Cummins ◀

1,191
HRL Laboratories

1,188
UOP

1,188
Vestas Wind Syste…

1,179
Cardiac Pacemakers

1,178

What this shows Cummins holds 1,191 patents at rank #365, 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 #365 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Ii-vi Delaware, Inc. 69 Essenlix Corporation 69 Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. 69 Digital Global Systems, Inc. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Here Global B.V. 19.1 avg Schott AG 19.1 avg WestRock MWV, LLC 19.1 avg Sunnybrook Research Institute 19.1 avg

Cummins's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	67	5.6%
2016	77	6.5%
2017	101	8.5%
2018	92	7.7%
2019	85	7.1%
2020	105	8.8%
2021	151	12.7%
2022	130	10.9%
2023	133	11.2%
2024	131	11.0%
2025partial year	119	10.0%

Which technologies does Cummins Inc. patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 635

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 413

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 268

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 256

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 240

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 182

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 104

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 77

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 72

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 71

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 64

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 57

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 54

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 51

B01D - Separation 48

Top 15 of 145 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#365

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

68.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Cummins Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 53.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #365 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cummins Inc. against X Development LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.6/100 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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