Where does New York Air Brake LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), New York Air Brake LLC ranks #3,740 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 New York Air Brake LLC hold?

New York Air Brake LLC holds 97 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is New York Air Brake LLC's Innovation Score?

New York Air Brake LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.9 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is New York Air Brake LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

New York Air Brake LLC's recent grant velocity is -69% 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 New York Air Brake LLC's patents?

New York Air Brake LLC's patents average 11.4 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 New York Air Brake 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

New York Air Brake LLC

Q: What technology areas does New York Air Brake LLC focus on?

New York Air Brake LLC's top technology area is 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) with 72 patents, ranking #24 of 539 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 97 granted patents across 44 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: 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 MO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, New ranks #3,740 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 97 patents across 44 technology areas.

#3,740
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.9/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3740 · US Corporation #3,740 · 97 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 97 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,740/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Korea Institute of…
CPC-WIDE B60T · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (±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 New’s 49.9 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 15.8 pts (32%) Velocity 3.8 pts (8%) Breadth 23.5 pts (47%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HannStar Display · near

50
Mitsubishi Aircraft · near

50
New York Air Brake · this assignee

50
Plume Design · near

50
Christie Digital… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows New's Innovation Score is 49.9/100 (top 14% 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 New?

Each dot is one of New’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). New’s own 11.4 claims/patent is at or below the 19.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where New's grants concentrate

New York Air Brake LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 74.2% of grants classified under 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 MO). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (20 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, New sits between Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology and Packsize, LLC.

New's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, New York Air Brake LLC moved from 23 to 13 grants (0.56x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Korea Institute o…

97
Lord

97
Mobile Technology

97
Nuvasive Speciali…

97
Niantic

97
Novell

97
Orcam

97
Packsize

97
New York Air Brake ◀

97

What this shows New holds 97 patents at rank #3,740, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near New

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,740 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for New, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof), New ranks #24 of 539 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Plume Design, Inc. 50 Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation 50 HannStar Display Corporation 50 Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. 11.4 avg TDK Corporation 11.4 avg Silgan Dispensing Systems Corporation 11.4 avg Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 11.4 avg

New's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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New York Air Brake LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.1%
2016	20	20.6%
2017	16	16.5%
2018	18	18.6%
2019	14	14.4%
2020	5	5.2%
2021	4	4.1%
2022	8	8.2%
2023	4	4.1%
2024	1	1.0%
2025partial year	3	3.1%

Which technologies does New York Air Brake LLC patent most?

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 72

B61H - Brakes OR Other Retarding Devices Specially Adapted FOR Rail VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Disposition Thereof IN Rail Vehicles 33

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 19

B01D - Separation 11

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

B61G - COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances 3

B61K - Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted FOR Railways, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

Top 15 of 44 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

New York Air Brake LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

New York Air Brake LLC's lead technology class is 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 MO), 74.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60T
Ranked #3,740 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare New York Air Brake LLC against Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.9/100 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

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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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