Where does Manitou Equipment America, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Manitou Equipment America, LLC ranks #29,367 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 Manitou Equipment America, LLC hold?

Manitou Equipment America, LLC holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Manitou Equipment America, LLC's Innovation Score?

Manitou Equipment America, LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.1 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Manitou Equipment America, LLC focus on?

Manitou Equipment America, LLC's top technology area is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting) with 5 patents, ranking #107 of 348 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Manitou Equipment America, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Manitou Equipment America, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Manitou Equipment America, LLC's patents?

Manitou Equipment America, LLC's patents average 18.4 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 Manitou Equipment America, LLC 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

Manitou Equipment America, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Manitou ranks #29,367 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 14 technology areas.

#29,367
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.1/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29367 · US Corporation #29,367 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,367/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MacDermid Acumen
CPC-FOCUS E02F · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MacDermid Acumen, 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 Manitou’s 41.1 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 8.0 pts (19%) Velocity 8.9 pts (22%) Breadth 13.2 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Manitou Equipment… · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Manitou's Innovation Score is 41.1/100 (top 34% 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 Manitou?

Each dot is one of Manitou’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). Manitou’s own 18.4 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.

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

Where Manitou's grants concentrate

Manitou Equipment America, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Manitou sits between MacDermid Acumen, Inc. and Mapped Inc..

Manitou's three-year grant acceleration

Manitou Equipment America, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Macdermid Acumen

9
Macgregor Norway…

9
Major Bravo

9
Mambate US

9
Mantrose-haeuser

9
Maodi Solar Techn…

9
Mapr

9
Mapped

9
Manitou Equipment… ◀

9

What this shows Manitou holds 9 patents at rank #29,433, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Manitou

By rank, the assignees closest to #29,433 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E02F (Dredging)

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

Manitou's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Manitou Equipment America, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	22.2%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	2	22.2%
2023	1	11.1%
2024	1	11.1%
2025partial year	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Manitou Equipment America, LLC patent most?

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 5

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 3

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

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 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

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

Top 14 of 14 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

Manitou Equipment America, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Manitou Equipment America, LLC's lead technology class is E02F (DREDGING; Soil-shifting), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E02F
Ranked #29,367 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Manitou Equipment America, LLC against MacDermid Acumen, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.1/100 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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