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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MAN Truck & Bus SE ranks #6,171 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 SE hold?

MAN Truck & Bus SE holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 52 technology areas.

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

MAN Truck & Bus SE has an Innovation Score of 67.4 out of 100 (top 1% 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 SE focus on?

MAN Truck & Bus SE's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 13 patents, ranking #458 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 52 CPC subclasses total.

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

MAN Truck & Bus SE's recent grant velocity is +2150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for MAN Truck & Bus SE's patents?

MAN Truck & Bus SE's patents average 14.1 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 MAN Truck & Bus SE 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 SE

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 52 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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 #6,171 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 52 technology areas.

#6,171
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.4/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: +2150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6171 · Foreign Corporation #6,171 · 55 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,171/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lanto
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 52 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lanto Electronic Limited (±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 67.4 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 13.9 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (30%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alcon · near

67
Industry Academy… · near

67
MAN Truck & Bus SE · this assignee

67
BAIDU COM Times… · near

67
Ut-battelle · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows MAN's Innovation Score is 67.4/100 (top 1% 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 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 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 SE received 45 grants versus 2 in 2015–2019 (+2150% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 2. Lead class Y02T accounts for 23.6% of the portfolio across 52 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lanto Electronic Limited (#6,165) and Metso Minerals, Inc. (#6,173).

MAN's three-year grant acceleration

MAN Truck & Bus SE shows 38 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Lanto

55
Laurus Labs

55
Liebherr-werk Nen…

55
MAG Aerospace Ind…

55
Medicrea Internat…

55
Microport Orthope…

55
Mahle Filter Syst…

55
Metso Minerals

55
MAN Truck & Bus SE ◀

55

What this shows MAN holds 55 patents at rank #6,169, 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 #6,169 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 #458 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation Of Sejong University 67 Alcon Inc. 67 BAIDU.COM Times Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. 67 Ut-battelle, LLC 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

University of Puerto Rico 14.1 avg The Translational Genomics Research Institute 14.1 avg Nextracker LLC 14.1 avg Knorr-bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH 14.1 avg

MAN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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MAN Truck & Bus SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	3.6%
2020	3	5.5%
2021	4	7.3%
2022	5	9.1%
2023	16	29.1%
2024	17	30.9%
2025partial year	8	14.5%

Which technologies does MAN Truck & Bus SE patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 13

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 6

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 6

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 5

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 5

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 5

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 5

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

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 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 3

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

Top 15 of 52 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 SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

MAN Truck & Bus SE's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 23.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #6,171 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MAN Truck & Bus SE against Lanto Electronic Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.4/100 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

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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