Where does MAN Truck &Bus AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MAN Truck &Bus AG ranks #2,290 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 MAN Truck &Bus AG hold?

MAN Truck &Bus AG holds 171 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 104 technology areas.

What is MAN Truck &Bus AG's Innovation Score?

MAN Truck &Bus AG has an Innovation Score of 52.7 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 MAN Truck &Bus AG focus on?

MAN Truck &Bus AG's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 57 patents, ranking #148 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 104 CPC subclasses total.

Is MAN Truck &Bus AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

MAN Truck &Bus AG's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 MAN Truck &Bus AG's patents?

MAN Truck &Bus AG's patents average 15.7 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 MAN Truck &Bus AG 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

MAN Truck &Bus AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 171 granted patents across 104 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, MAN ranks #2,290 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 171 patents across 104 technology areas.

#2,290
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.7/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2290 · Foreign Corporation #2,290 · 171 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 171 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,290/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Church & Dwight
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 104 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Church & Dwight Co., 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 MAN’s 52.7 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 17.8 pts (34%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Soucy International · near

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Blancpain · near

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Innoviz · near

53
MAN Truck &Bus · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows MAN's Innovation Score is 52.7/100 (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 MAN?

Each dot is one of MAN’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). MAN’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How MAN's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, MAN Truck &Bus AG received 57 grants versus 113 in 2015–2019 (-50% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 32 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 33.3% of the portfolio across 104 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (#2,286) and Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc. (#2,294).

MAN's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, MAN Truck &Bus AG moved from 77 to 6 grants (0.08x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,195. See the growth leaderboard.

Church & Dwight

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MAN Truck &Bus ◀

171

What this shows MAN holds 171 patents at rank #2,290, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MAN

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,290 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for MAN, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), MAN ranks #148 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Duracell U.S. Operations, Inc. 53 Blancpain SA 53 Innoviz Technologies Ltd. 53 Soucy International Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

UDC Ireland Limited 15.7 avg Zoll Circulation, Inc. 15.7 avg Parallels International GmbH 15.7 avg Carestream Health, Inc. 15.7 avg

MAN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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MAN Truck &Bus AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	11.1%
2016	14	8.2%
2017	29	17.0%
2018	25	14.6%
2019	26	15.2%
2020	32	18.7%
2021	19	11.1%
2022	5	2.9%
2023	1	0.6%
2025partial year	1	0.6%

Which technologies does MAN Truck &Bus AG patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 57

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 31

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 30

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 26

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 26

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 21

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 19

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 18

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 14

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 13

F16H - Gearing 12

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 12

B01D - Separation 11

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 11

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 10

Top 15 of 104 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

MAN Truck &Bus AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

MAN Truck &Bus AG's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #2,290 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MAN Truck &Bus AG against Church & Dwight Co., Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.7/100 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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