Where does Joy Global Surface Mining Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Joy Global Surface Mining Inc ranks #4,088 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 Joy Global Surface Mining Inc hold?

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's Innovation Score?

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Joy Global Surface Mining Inc focus on?

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's top technology area is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting) with 65 patents, ranking #16 of 348 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

Is Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's recent grant velocity is +119% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's patents?

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's patents average 20.3 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 Joy Global Surface Mining 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

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 44 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Joy ranks #4,088 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 44 technology areas.

#4,088
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: +119%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4088 · US Corporation #4,088 · 88 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,088/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hollingsworth & Vose
CPC-WIDE E02F · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +119% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hollingsworth & Vose Company (±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 Joy’s 54.3 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 15.5 pts (29%) Velocity 3.1 pts (6%) Breadth 23.5 pts (43%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Faraday & Future · near

54
Joy Global Surface… · this assignee

54
JRD Communication… · near

54
Lowe's Companies · near

54
WiSys Technology… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Joy's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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 Joy?

Each dot is one of Joy’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). Joy’s own 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Joy's grants concentrate

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 73.9% of grants classified under E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (18 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2022. By volume, Joy sits between Hollingsworth & Vose Company and Luminex Corporation.

Joy's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Joy Global Surface Mining Inc moved from 49 to 23 grants (0.47x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Hollingsworth & V…

88
Institut National…

88
Ideastream Consum…

88
Johnson Controls

88
Kenall Manufactur…

88
Kapsch Trafficcom

88
Liko Research & D…

88
Luminex

88
Joy Global Surfac… ◀

88

What this shows Joy holds 88 patents at rank #4,088, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Joy

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,088 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E02F (Dredging)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Joy, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E02F (Dredging), Joy ranks #16 of 348 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Lowe's Companies, Inc. 54 JRD Communication (Shenzhen) Ltd. 54 WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc. 54 Faraday & Future Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.3 here).

Spirent Communications, Inc. 20.3 avg Qiagen GmbH 20.3 avg STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS 20.3 avg McAfee, LLC 20.3 avg

Joy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Joy Global Surface Mining Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	11	12.5%
2019	15	17.0%
2020	16	18.2%
2021	18	20.5%
2022	5	5.7%
2023	6	6.8%
2024	12	13.6%
2025partial year	5	5.7%

Which technologies does Joy Global Surface Mining Inc patent most?

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 65

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 23

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 13

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 6

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 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

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

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 2

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 2

Top 15 of 44 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

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Joy Global Surface Mining Inc's lead technology class is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting), 73.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E02F
Ranked #4,088 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Joy Global Surface Mining Inc against Hollingsworth & Vose Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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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