Where does Cummins Power Generation Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cummins Power Generation Inc. ranks #2,686 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 Power Generation Inc. hold?

Cummins Power Generation Inc. holds 144 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is Cummins Power Generation Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cummins Power Generation Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.1 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Cummins Power Generation Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +27% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Cummins Power Generation Inc.'s patents?

Cummins Power Generation Inc.'s patents average 19.5 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 Power Generation 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 Power Generation Inc.

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

Cummins Power Generation Inc.'s top technology area is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy) with 52 patents, ranking #108 of 3,143 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 144 granted patents across 47 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: H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cummins ranks #2,686 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 144 patents across 47 technology areas.

#2,686
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2686 · US Corporation #2,686 · 144 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 144 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,686/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asahi Intecc
CPC-WIDE H02J · 47 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asahi Intecc 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 60.1 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 17.2 pts (29%) Velocity 7.0 pts (12%) Breadth 24.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metawave · near

60
Cummins Power… · this assignee

60
Kennametal · near

60
Landis+Gyr Technology · near

60
Sichuan University · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cummins's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (top 4% 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 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.0 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 Power Generation Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 36.1% of grants classified under H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (20 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2015. By volume, Cummins sits between Wheel Pros LLC and Korea Aerospace Research Institute.

Cummins's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cummins Power Generation Inc. moved from 44 to 46 grants (1.04x 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 #1,072. See the growth leaderboard.

Wheel Pros

145
Asahi Intecc

144
China University…

144
Cryovac

144
Hisense Broadband…

144
Huntsman Internat…

144
Harley-davidson M…

144
Korea Aerospace R…

144
Cummins Power Gen… ◀

144

What this shows Cummins holds 144 patents at rank #2,686, 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 #2,686 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…)

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 H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distribu…), Cummins ranks #108 of 3,143 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Sichuan University 60 Kennametal Inc. 60 Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc. 60 Metawave Corporation 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Altec Industries, Inc. 19.5 avg Renishaw PLC 19.5 avg Dirtt Environmental Solutions Ltd. 19.5 avg ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. 19.5 avg

Cummins's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 Power Generation Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	5.6%
2016	9	6.3%
2017	17	11.8%
2018	10	6.9%
2019	15	10.4%
2020	14	9.7%
2021	15	10.4%
2022	13	9.0%
2023	13	9.0%
2024	20	13.9%
2025partial year	10	6.9%

Which technologies does Cummins Power Generation Inc. patent most?

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 52

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 33

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 24

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 24

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 22

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 22

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 19

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 18

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 16

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 15

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 13

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 10

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 10

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 10

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 9

Top 15 of 47 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 Power Generation Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cummins Power Generation Inc.'s lead technology class is H02J (Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy), 36.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02J
Ranked #2,686 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cummins Power Generation Inc. against Wheel Pros LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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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