Where does Deere & Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Deere & Company ranks #93 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 Deere & Company hold?

Deere & Company holds 3,926 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 225 technology areas.

What is Deere & Company's Innovation Score?

Deere & Company has an Innovation Score of 70.1 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%).

What technology areas does Deere & Company focus on?

Deere & Company's top technology area is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing) with 939 patents, ranking #1 of 302 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 225 CPC subclasses total.

Is Deere & Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Deere & Company's recent grant velocity is +53% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Deere & Company's patents?

Deere & Company's patents average 15.7 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 Deere & 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

Deere & Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,926 granted patents across 225 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: A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Deere ranks #93 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,926 patents across 225 technology areas.

#93
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.1/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R93 · US Corporation #93 · 3,926 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.9K grants
TOP-DECILE #93/49,997
NEAR-PEER BlackBerry
CPC-BROAD A01D · 225 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BlackBerry Limited (±27 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 Deere’s 70.1 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 28.6 pts (41%) Velocity 7.1 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Honda Motor · near

70
Mitsubishi Electric · near

70
Deere & · this assignee

70
Rockwell Automation · near

70
Samsara · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Deere's Innovation Score is 70.1/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Deere?

Each dot is one of Deere’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). Deere’s own 15.7 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Deere's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Deere & Company received 2,144 grants versus 1,397 in 2015–2019 (+53% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 453 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 246. Lead class A01D accounts for 23.9% of the portfolio across 225 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. (#89) and Xerox Corporation (#97).

Deere's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Deere & Company moved from 1,208 to 1,283 grants (1.06x 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 #1,030. See the growth leaderboard.

Western Digital

3,986
LG Innotek

3,977
Monsanto Technolo…

3,956
Blackberry

3,953
Deere & ◀

3,926
Renesas

3,882
Fanuc

3,797
Massachusetts Ins…

3,784
Xerox

3,772

What this shows Deere holds 3,926 patents at rank #93, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Deere

By rank, the assignees closest to #93 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01D (Harvesting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Deere, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01D (Harvesting), Deere ranks #1 of 302 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. 70 Samsara Inc. 70 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 70 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited 15.7 avg Ping AN Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 15.7 avg Woodstream Corporation 15.7 avg Taoglas Group Holdings Limited 15.7 avg

Deere's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 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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Deere & Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	246	6.3%
2016	260	6.6%
2017	287	7.3%
2018	257	6.5%
2019	347	8.8%
2020	430	11.0%
2021	431	11.0%
2022	405	10.3%
2023	453	11.5%
2024	425	10.8%
2025partial year	385	9.8%

Which technologies does Deere & Company patent most?

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 939

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 724

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 487

A01F - Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce 408

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 404

F16H - Gearing 322

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 321

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 302

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 283

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 257

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 232

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 191

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 164

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 140

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 132

Top 15 of 225 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

Deere & Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Deere & Company's lead technology class is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing), 23.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01D
Ranked #93 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Deere & Company against Western Digital Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.1/100 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.

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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