Where does Dawn Equipment Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dawn Equipment Company ranks #7,684 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 Dawn Equipment Company hold?

Dawn Equipment Company holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Dawn Equipment Company's Innovation Score?

Dawn Equipment Company has an Innovation Score of 37.6 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 Dawn Equipment Company focus on?

Dawn Equipment Company's top technology area is A01C (PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising) with 38 patents, ranking #9 of 276 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dawn Equipment Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dawn Equipment Company's recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Dawn Equipment Company's patents?

Dawn Equipment Company's patents average 15.1 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 Dawn Equipment Company 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

Dawn Equipment Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A01C (PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dawn ranks #7,684 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 13 technology areas.

#7,684
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.6/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7684 · US Corporation #7,684 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,684/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Danfoss Micro…
CPC-FOCUS A01C · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Danfoss Micro Channel Heat Exchanger (JIAXING) 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 Dawn’s 37.6 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 13.0 pts (34%) Velocity 2.9 pts (8%) Breadth 12.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dawn Equipment · this assignee

38
Dcentralized Systems · near

38
Levitation Sciences · near

38
Metal Fusion · near

38
Occipital · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dawn's Innovation Score is 37.6/100 (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 Dawn?

Each dot is one of Dawn’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). Dawn’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dawn's grants concentrate

Dawn Equipment Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 90.5% of grants classified under A01C (PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Dawn sits between Danfoss Micro Channel Heat Exchanger (JIAXING) Co., Ltd. and Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation.

Dawn's three-year grant acceleration

Dawn Equipment Company shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Danfoss Micro Cha…

42
De'longhi Braun H…

42
Deutz Aktiengesel…

42
Drnc Holdings

42
Dukane IAS

42
Durect

42
Easton Diamond Sp…

42
Energy and Enviro…

42
Dawn Equipment ◀

42

What this shows Dawn holds 42 patents at rank #7,687, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dawn

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,687 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01C (Planting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dawn, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01C (Planting), Dawn ranks #9 of 276 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Occipital, Inc. 38 Levitation Sciences LLC 38 Metal Fusion, Inc. 38 Dcentralized Systems, Inc. 38

Dawn'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 · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Dawn Equipment Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	26.2%
2016	4	9.5%
2017	6	14.3%
2018	1	2.4%
2019	7	16.7%
2020	4	9.5%
2021	3	7.1%
2022	1	2.4%
2023	1	2.4%
2024	4	9.5%

Which technologies does Dawn Equipment Company patent most?

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 38

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 35

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

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

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 4

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 3

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 3

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 2

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 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Dawn Equipment Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dawn Equipment Company's lead technology class is A01C (PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising), 90.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01C
Ranked #7,684 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dawn Equipment Company against Danfoss Micro Channel Heat Exchanger (JIAXING) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.