Where does Oshkosh Defense, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oshkosh Defense, LLC ranks #2,317 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 Defense, LLC hold?

Oshkosh Defense, LLC holds 169 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Oshkosh Defense, LLC's Innovation Score?

Oshkosh Defense, LLC has an Innovation Score of 62.5 out of 100 (top 2% 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 Defense, LLC focus on?

Oshkosh Defense, LLC's top technology area is B60G (Vehicle Suspension Arrangements) with 77 patents, ranking #8 of 428 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Oshkosh Defense, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oshkosh Defense, LLC's recent grant velocity is +145% 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 Defense, LLC's patents?

Oshkosh Defense, LLC's patents average 15.3 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 Defense, 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

Oshkosh Defense, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 169 granted patents across 39 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: B60G (Vehicle Suspension Arrangements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oshkosh ranks #2,317 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 169 patents across 39 technology areas.

#2,317
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.5/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +145%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2317 · US Corporation #2,317 · 169 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 169 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,317/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Horizon Global…
CPC-FOCUS B60G · 39 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +145% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Horizon Global Americas 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 Oshkosh’s 62.5 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 17.7 pts (28%) Velocity 13.5 pts (22%) Breadth 22.1 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AeroVironment · near

62
Eneos · near

62
Xiamen Leedarson… · near

62
Oshkosh Defense · this assignee

62
Oxford University… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oshkosh's Innovation Score is 62.5/100 (top 2% 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 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 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.

Where Oshkosh's grants concentrate

Oshkosh Defense, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 45.6% of grants classified under B60G (Vehicle Suspension Arrangements). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (34 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Oshkosh sits between Horizon Global Americas Inc. and Shanghai Avic Optoelectronics Co., Ltd..

Oshkosh's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Oshkosh Defense, LLC moved from 40 to 81 grants (2.02x 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 #207. See the growth leaderboard.

Horizon Global Am…

169
Hyundai Transys

169
Idac Holdings

169
Nutech Ventures

169
Promega

169
Radiant Opto-

169
Rigaku

169
Shanghai Avic Opt…

169
Oshkosh Defense ◀

169

What this shows Oshkosh holds 169 patents at rank #2,317, 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 #2,317 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60G (Vehicle Suspension Arrangements)

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 B60G (Vehicle Suspension Arrangements), Oshkosh ranks #8 of 428 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Oxford University Innovation Limited 62 Eneos Corporation 62 AeroVironment, Inc. 62 Xiamen Leedarson Lighting Co., Ltd 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Technische UNIVERSITÄT Berlin 15.3 avg Uchicago Argonne, LLC 15.3 avg Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 15.3 avg Beijing Geekplus Technology Co., Ltd. 15.3 avg

Oshkosh's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 Defense, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	5.3%
2016	9	5.3%
2017	10	5.9%
2018	3	1.8%
2019	13	7.7%
2020	13	7.7%
2021	14	8.3%
2022	34	20.1%
2023	21	12.4%
2024	26	15.4%
2025partial year	17	10.1%

Which technologies does Oshkosh Defense, LLC patent most?

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 77

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 75

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 66

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 64

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 46

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 42

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 42

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 41

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 38

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 24

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 24

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 22

F16H - Gearing 18

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 16

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Top 15 of 39 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Oshkosh Defense, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oshkosh Defense, LLC's lead technology class is B60G (Vehicle Suspension Arrangements), 45.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60G
Ranked #2,317 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oshkosh Defense, LLC against Horizon Global Americas Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.5/100 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

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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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