Where does Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. ranks #2,154 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 Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. hold?

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. holds 183 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 81 technology areas.

What is Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.6 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. focus on?

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 65 patents, ranking #133 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

Is Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s patents?

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Electro-Motive Diesel, 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

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 183 granted patents across 81 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, Electro-motive ranks #2,154 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 183 patents across 81 technology areas.

#2,154
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2154 · US Corporation #2,154 · 183 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 183 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,154/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brooks Automation
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 81 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brooks Automation GmbH (±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 Electro-motive’s 53.6 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 18.0 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Florida A&M University · near

54
AB Sandvik Coromant · near

54
Electro-Motive Diesel · this assignee

54
Kistler Holding · near

54
Mitek Holdings · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Electro-motive's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (top 9% 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 Electro-motive?

Each dot is one of Electro-motive’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). Electro-motive’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Electro-motive's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. received 0 grants versus 183 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 80 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 3. Lead class Y02T accounts for 35.5% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Brooks Automation GmbH (#2,150) and National Cancer Center (#2,158).

Brooks Automation

183
Carl Zeiss Indust…

183
DR Johannes Heide…

183
Danmarks Tekniske…

183
Huawei Cloud Comp…

183
Koninklijke Douwe…

183
Montres Breguet

183
National Cancer C…

183
Electro-motive Di… ◀

183

What this shows Electro-Motive holds 183 patents at rank #2,154, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Electro-Motive

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,154 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Electro-Motive's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Electro-Motive, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Electro-Motive ranks #133 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Kistler Holding AG 54 Mitek Holdings, Inc. 54 AB Sandvik Coromant 54 Florida A&M University 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Amadeus S.A.S. 17.6 avg Ferring B.V. 17.6 avg GlobalFoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. 17.6 avg Level 3 Communications, LLC 17.6 avg

Electro-motive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	80	43.7%
2016	37	20.2%
2017	63	34.4%
2018	3	1.6%

Which technologies does Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 65

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 45

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 37

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 34

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 33

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 28

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 24

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 12

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 7

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 7

F16H - Gearing 6

Top 15 of 81 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

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 35.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #2,154 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. against Brooks Automation GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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

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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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