Where does Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. ranks #4,468 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 Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. hold?

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.1 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +212% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s patents?

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s patents average 17.2 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 Great Plains Manufacturing, 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

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. focus on?

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s top technology area is 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 ) with 24 patents, ranking #141 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 28 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Great ranks #4,468 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 28 technology areas.

#4,468
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.1/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: +212%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4468 · US Corporation #4,468 · 79 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,468/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Exelis
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 28 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +212% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Exelis Inc. (±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 Great’s 64.1 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 15.1 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 18.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Great Plains… · this assignee

64
Hisense Visual… · near

64
Tsmc China · near

64
Arctic Cat · near

64
American Regent · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Great's Innovation Score is 64.1/100 (top 2% 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 Great?

Each dot is one of Great’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). Great’s own 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Great's grants concentrate

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 30.4% of grants classified under 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 Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (19 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Great sits between Exelis Inc. and INSTITUCIÓ Catalana DE Recerca I Estudis Avancats.

Great's three-year grant acceleration

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. shows 45 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Exelis

79
Fallbrook Intelle…

79
Guangdong Brunp R…

79
Grand Mate

79
Gula Consulting L…

79
Helmholtz Zentrum…

79
Industry-academic…

79
InstituciÓ Catala…

79
Great Plains Manu… ◀

79

What this shows Great holds 79 patents at rank #4,469, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Great

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,469 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Great, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Great ranks #141 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Tsmc China Company, Limited 64 Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Arctic Cat Inc. 64 American Regent, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

NEC Corporation Of America 17.2 avg Cyber Power Systems, Inc. 17.2 avg Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. 17.2 avg International Paper Company 17.2 avg

Great's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.5%
2016	2	2.5%
2017	4	5.1%
2018	4	5.1%
2019	5	6.3%
2020	4	5.1%
2021	4	5.1%
2022	11	13.9%
2023	19	24.1%
2024	15	19.0%
2025partial year	9	11.4%

Which technologies does Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. patent most?

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 24

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 22

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 22

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 22

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 17

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 14

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 13

A01F - Processing OF Harvested PRODUCE; HAY OR Straw PRESSES; Devices FOR Storing Agricultural OR Horticultural Produce 11

B30B - Presses IN General 9

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 8

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

Top 15 of 28 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

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 30.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #4,468 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. against Exelis Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.1/100 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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