Where does Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. ranks #5,214 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 Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. hold?

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. focus on?

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is F01L (Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines) with 63 patents, ranking #7 of 181 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +116% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s patents average 20.1 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 Jacobs Vehicle Systems, 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

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 7 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: F01L (Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Jacobs ranks #5,214 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 7 technology areas.

#5,214
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: +116%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5214 · US Corporation #5,214 · 66 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,214/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH INDUSTRY—UNIVERSITY…
CPC-NARROW F01L · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +116% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: INDUSTRY—UNIVERSITY Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University (±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 Jacobs’s 41.5 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 14.5 pts (35%) Velocity 5.6 pts (13%) Breadth 9.4 pts (23%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Jacobs Vehicle Systems · this assignee

41
Keyssa · near

41
Mastercard ASIA/PACI… · near

41
New Balance Athletics · near

41
Sony Europe · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Jacobs's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Jacobs?

Each dot is one of Jacobs’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). Jacobs’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Jacobs's grants concentrate

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 95.5% of grants classified under F01L (Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Jacobs sits between INDUSTRY—UNIVERSITY Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University and Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute.

Jacobs's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. moved from 24 to 20 grants (0.83x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Industry—Universi…

66
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Integral Ad Scien…

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Jumio

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Yakult Honsha

66
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66
Jacobs Vehicle Sy… ◀

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What this shows Jacobs holds 66 patents at rank #5,215, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Jacobs

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,215 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01L (Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Jacobs, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F01L (Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines), Jacobs ranks #7 of 181 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Mastercard ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. 41 Sony Europe Limited 41 New Balance Athletics, Inc. 41 Keyssa, Inc. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

Tealium Inc. 20.1 avg Shenzhen Xpectvision Technology Co., Ltd. 20.1 avg Virtuozzo International GmbH 20.1 avg Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 20.1 avg

Jacobs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	7.6%
2016	4	6.1%
2017	5	7.6%
2018	2	3.0%
2019	3	4.5%
2020	11	16.7%
2021	10	15.2%
2022	12	18.2%
2023	4	6.1%
2024	4	6.1%
2025partial year	6	9.1%

Which technologies does Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. patent most?

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 63

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 29

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 19

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 4

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 1

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is F01L (Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines), 95.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01L
Ranked #5,214 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. against INDUSTRY—UNIVERSITY Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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