Where does Ingersoll-Rand Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ingersoll-Rand Company ranks #2,043 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 Ingersoll-Rand Company hold?

Ingersoll-Rand Company holds 194 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 90 technology areas.

What is Ingersoll-Rand Company's Innovation Score?

Ingersoll-Rand Company has an Innovation Score of 52.4 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ingersoll-Rand Company focus on?

Ingersoll-Rand Company's top technology area is B25B (Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding) with 33 patents, ranking #16 of 768 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 90 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ingersoll-Rand Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ingersoll-Rand Company's recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Ingersoll-Rand Company's patents?

Ingersoll-Rand Company's patents average 15.3 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 Ingersoll-Rand 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

Ingersoll-Rand Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 194 granted patents across 90 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: B25B (Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ingersoll-rand ranks #2,043 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 194 patents across 90 technology areas.

#2,043
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2043 · US Corporation #2,043 · 194 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 194 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,043/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Duksan Neolux
CPC-WIDE B25B · 90 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Duksan Neolux 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 Ingersoll-rand’s 52.4 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 18.2 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BP Exploration… · near

52
Nippon Hoso Kyokai · near

52
Electric AND… · near

52
Ingersoll-Rand · this assignee

52
Software · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ingersoll-rand's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (top 10% 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 Ingersoll-rand?

Each dot is one of Ingersoll-rand’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). Ingersoll-rand’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ingersoll-rand's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ingersoll-Rand Company received 6 grants versus 188 in 2015–2019 (-97% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 54 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 6. Lead class B25B accounts for 17% of the portfolio across 90 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Versum Materials US, LLC (#2,039) and Siemens Schweiz AG (#2,047).

Versum Materials…

195
Duksan Neolux

194
Forcepoint

194
Gemalto

194
Intertrust

194
Konami Digital En…

194
Proofpoint

194
Siemens Schweiz

194
Ingersoll-rand ◀

194

What this shows Ingersoll-Rand holds 194 patents at rank #2,043, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ingersoll-Rand

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,043 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25B (Tools OR Bench Devices)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Ingersoll-Rand's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ingersoll-Rand, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25B (Tools OR Bench Devices), Ingersoll-Rand ranks #16 of 768 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Electric AND Telecommunications Research Institute 52 Nippon Hoso Kyokai 52 BP Exploration Operating Company Limited 52 Software GMBH 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 15.3 avg tooz technologies GmbH 15.3 avg Longitude Semiconductor S.a.r.l. 15.3 avg Dana Motion Systems Italia S.R.L. 15.3 avg

Ingersoll-rand's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Ingersoll-Rand Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	12.9%
2016	35	18.0%
2017	54	27.8%
2018	38	19.6%
2019	36	18.6%
2020	6	3.1%

Which technologies does Ingersoll-Rand Company patent most?

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 33

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 32

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 30

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 22

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 22

B01D - Separation 19

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 13

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

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 10

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 9

F16H - Gearing 8

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 8

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 7

F16N - Lubricating 7

Top 15 of 90 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

Ingersoll-Rand Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ingersoll-Rand Company's lead technology class is B25B (Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding), 17% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25B
Ranked #2,043 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ingersoll-Rand Company against Versum Materials US, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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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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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