Where does Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited ranks #5,382 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 Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited hold?

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's Innovation Score?

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited focus on?

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 64 patents, ranking #30 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's recent grant velocity is +17% 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 Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's patents?

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's patents average 16.5 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited

Q: How is the Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 12 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Meritor ranks #5,382 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 12 technology areas.

#5,382
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5382 · Foreign Corporation #5,382 · 64 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,382/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mechoshade Systems
CPC-FOCUS F16D · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mechoshade Systems, 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 Meritor’s 40.5 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 14.4 pts (36%) Velocity 3.9 pts (10%) Breadth 12.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Barnett Outdoors · near

40
DevFactory Innovatio… · near

40
Thyssenkrupp Presta… · near

40
Eva Automation · near

40
Meritor Heavy… · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Meritor's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 36% 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 Meritor?

Each dot is one of Meritor’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). Meritor’s own 16.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Meritor's grants concentrate

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Meritor sits between Mechoshade Systems, LLC and National Chi Nan University.

Meritor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited moved from 24 to 14 grants (0.58x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Mechoshade Systems

64
Medtronic Vascula…

64
Mitek Systems

64
Medshine Discovery

64
Mid-west Metal Pr…

64
Nisshinbo Holdings

64
Narrative Science

64
National Chi Nan…

64
Meritor Heavy Veh… ◀

64

What this shows Meritor holds 64 patents at rank #5,382, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Meritor

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,382 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Meritor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation), Meritor ranks #30 of 1,090 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Eva Automation, Inc. 40 Thyssenkrupp Presta Teccenter AG 40 Barnett Outdoors, LLC. 40 DevFactory Innovations Fz-llc 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

Sony Europe Limited 16.5 avg Vertiv Corporation 16.5 avg Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC 16.5 avg Oberthur Technologies 16.5 avg

Meritor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	9.4%
2016	4	6.3%
2017	7	10.9%
2018	8	12.5%
2019	4	6.3%
2020	11	17.2%
2021	9	14.1%
2022	5	7.8%
2023	6	9.4%
2024	3	4.7%
2025partial year	1	1.6%

Which technologies does Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 64

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

F16H - Gearing 3

B21K - Making Forged OR Pressed Metal Products, e.g. Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts OR Wheels 2

B22C - Foundry Moulding 1

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 1

B23B - TURNING; Boring 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited's lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #5,382 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited against Mechoshade Systems, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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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