Where does MTD Products Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MTD Products Inc ranks #1,890 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 MTD Products Inc hold?

MTD Products Inc holds 213 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 70 technology areas.

What is MTD Products Inc's Innovation Score?

MTD Products Inc has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does MTD Products Inc focus on?

MTD Products Inc's top technology area is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing) with 81 patents, ranking #8 of 302 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 70 CPC subclasses total.

Is MTD Products Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

MTD Products Inc's recent grant velocity is -21% 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 MTD Products Inc's patents?

MTD Products Inc's patents average 12.2 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 MTD Products Inc 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

MTD Products Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 213 granted patents across 70 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, MTD ranks #1,890 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 213 patents across 70 technology areas.

#1,890
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1890 · US Corporation #1,890 · 213 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 213 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,890/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Danisco US
CPC-WIDE A01D · 70 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Danisco US 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 MTD’s 56.9 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 18.5 pts (33%) Velocity 6.0 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Safran Electrical &… · near

57
MTD Products · this assignee

57
Scientia Potentia Est · near

57
EMD Millipore · near

57
Giga-byte Technology · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows MTD's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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 MTD?

Each dot is one of MTD’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). MTD’s own 12.2 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How MTD's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, MTD Products Inc received 90 grants versus 114 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 33 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 12. Lead class A01D accounts for 38% of the portfolio across 70 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Danisco US Inc. (#1,886) and Soliton, LLC (#1,894).

MTD's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, MTD Products Inc moved from 59 to 53 grants (0.90x 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 #1,482. See the growth leaderboard.

Danisco US

213
Intelligrated Hea…

213
Korea Atomic Ener…

213
LOS Alamos Nation…

213
Netskope

213
Pratt Corrugated…

213
Robert Bosch Tool

213
Soliton

213
MTD Products ◀

213

What this shows MTD holds 213 patents at rank #1,890, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MTD

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,890 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01D (Harvesting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for MTD, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01D (Harvesting), MTD ranks #8 of 302 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Scientia Potentia Est., LLC 57 EMD Millipore Corporation 57 Safran Electrical & Power 57 Giga-byte Technology Co., Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.2 here).

Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd. 12.2 avg ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd. 12.2 avg THE Coca-cola Company 12.2 avg Omnitek Partners LLC 12.2 avg

MTD's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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.

View data table

MTD Products Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	7.0%
2016	19	8.9%
2017	33	15.5%
2018	25	11.7%
2019	22	10.3%
2020	24	11.3%
2021	13	6.1%
2022	22	10.3%
2023	19	8.9%
2024	12	5.6%
2025partial year	9	4.2%

Which technologies does MTD Products Inc patent most?

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 81

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 36

E01H - Street CLEANING; Cleaning OF Permanent WAYS; Cleaning BEACHES; Dispersing ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN General ; Cleaning Street OR Railway Furniture OR Tunnel Walls 24

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 23

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 13

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 13

F16H - Gearing 12

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 11

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 8

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 8

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 7

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

Top 15 of 70 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

MTD Products Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

MTD Products Inc's lead technology class is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing), 38% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01D
Ranked #1,890 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MTD Products Inc against Danisco US Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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