Where does Oshkosh Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oshkosh Corporation ranks #799 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 Oshkosh Corporation hold?

Oshkosh Corporation holds 576 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 110 technology areas.

What is Oshkosh Corporation's Innovation Score?

Oshkosh Corporation has an Innovation Score of 71.4 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 Oshkosh Corporation focus on?

Oshkosh Corporation's top technology area is B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse) with 168 patents, ranking #1 of 127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 110 CPC subclasses total.

Is Oshkosh Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oshkosh Corporation's recent grant velocity is +333% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Oshkosh Corporation's patents?

Oshkosh Corporation's patents average 16.0 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 Oshkosh Corporation 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

Oshkosh Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 576 granted patents across 110 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: B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oshkosh ranks #799 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 576 patents across 110 technology areas.

#799
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.4/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +333%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R799 · US Corporation #799 · 576 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 576 grants
TOP-DECILE #799/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH King Abdulaziz…
CPC-WIDE B65F · 110 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +333% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: King Abdulaziz University (±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 Oshkosh’s 71.4 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 22.0 pts (31%) Velocity 14.9 pts (21%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Regents of the… · near

71
Oshkosh · this assignee

71
Baidu USA · near

71
Beijing Voyager… · near

71
Jpmorgan Chase Bank… · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oshkosh's Innovation Score is 71.4/100 (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 Oshkosh?

Each dot is one of Oshkosh’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). Oshkosh’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Oshkosh's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Oshkosh Corporation received 385 grants versus 89 in 2015–2019 (+333% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 140 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 11. Lead class B65F accounts for 29.2% of the portfolio across 110 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (#795) and Nutanix, Inc. (#803).

Oshkosh's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Oshkosh Corporation moved from 130 to 290 grants (2.23x 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 #161. See the growth leaderboard.

The Government of…

579
Evonik Operations

578
Starkey Laborator…

577
King Abdulaziz Un…

576
Oshkosh ◀

576
Stanley Electric

575
THE Texas A&M Uni…

575
The University of…

575
Nutanix

574

What this shows Oshkosh holds 576 patents at rank #799, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oshkosh

By rank, the assignees closest to #799 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oshkosh, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse), Oshkosh ranks #1 of 127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Baidu USA LLC 71 The Regents of the University of California 71 Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd. 71 Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

IFP Energies Nouvelles 16.0 avg BSH Hausgeräte GmbH 16.0 avg Raytheon Technologies Corporation 16.0 avg Dassault Systemes 16.0 avg

Oshkosh's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 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 · 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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Oshkosh Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	2.1%
2016	11	1.9%
2017	17	3.0%
2018	14	2.4%
2019	35	6.1%
2020	29	5.0%
2021	66	11.5%
2022	55	9.5%
2023	95	16.5%
2024	140	24.3%
2025partial year	102	17.7%

Which technologies does Oshkosh Corporation patent most?

B65F - Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse 168

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 131

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 121

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 105

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 99

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 89

A62C - Fire-fighting 89

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 82

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 73

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 52

B28C - Preparing CLAY; Producing Mixtures Containing Clay OR Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 50

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 49

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 47

E06C - Ladders 44

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 43

Top 15 of 110 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

Oshkosh Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oshkosh Corporation's lead technology class is B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse), 29.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65F
Ranked #799 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oshkosh Corporation against The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.4/100 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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