Where does MacDon Industries Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MacDon Industries Ltd. ranks #4,298 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 MacDon Industries Ltd. hold?

MacDon Industries Ltd. holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is MacDon Industries Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

MacDon Industries Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 43.2 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does MacDon Industries Ltd. focus on?

MacDon Industries Ltd.'s top technology area is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing) with 65 patents, ranking #13 of 302 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is MacDon Industries Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

MacDon Industries Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +8% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for MacDon Industries Ltd.'s patents?

MacDon Industries Ltd.'s patents average 15.5 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 MacDon Industries Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

MacDon Industries Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 16 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: A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Macdon ranks #4,298 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 16 technology areas.

#4,298
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.2/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4298 · Foreign Corporation #4,298 · 83 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,298/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Incipio
CPC-FOCUS A01D · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Incipio, LLC (±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 Macdon’s 43.2 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 15.3 pts (35%) Velocity 4.4 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hadal · near

43
MacDon Industries · this assignee

43
Meijo University · near

43
Taiho Pharmaceutical · near

43
Volterra Semiconductor · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Macdon's Innovation Score is 43.2/100 (top 29% 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 Macdon?

Each dot is one of Macdon’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). Macdon’s own 15.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Macdon's grants concentrate

MacDon Industries Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 78.3% of grants classified under A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (13 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, Macdon sits between Incipio, LLC and Oridion Medical 1987 Ltd..

Macdon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, MacDon Industries Ltd. moved from 30 to 20 grants (0.67x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Incipio

83
Intematix

83
Leco

83
Materialise

83
National Yang-min…

83
NHN

83
Newtonoid L L C

83
Oridion Medical 1…

83
Macdon Industries ◀

83

What this shows MacDon holds 83 patents at rank #4,299, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MacDon

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,299 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01D (Harvesting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for MacDon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01D (Harvesting), MacDon ranks #13 of 302 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Volterra Semiconductor LLC 43 Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 43 Meijo University 43 Hadal, Inc. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

Lufthansa Technik AG 15.5 avg Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University 15.5 avg BenQ Corporation 15.5 avg ZF Automotive Germany GmbH 15.5 avg

Macdon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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MacDon Industries Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	13.3%
2016	5	6.0%
2017	7	8.4%
2018	4	4.8%
2019	10	12.0%
2020	13	15.7%
2021	7	8.4%
2022	7	8.4%
2023	7	8.4%
2024	6	7.2%
2025partial year	6	7.2%

Which technologies does MacDon Industries Ltd. patent most?

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 65

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 20

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

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

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

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 1

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

Top 15 of 16 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

MacDon Industries Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

MacDon Industries Ltd.'s lead technology class is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing), 78.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01D
Ranked #4,298 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MacDon Industries Ltd. against Incipio, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.2/100 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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