Where does Paccar Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Paccar Inc ranks #848 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 Paccar Inc hold?

Paccar Inc holds 538 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 96 technology areas.

What is Paccar Inc's Innovation Score?

Paccar Inc has an Innovation Score of 60.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Paccar Inc focus on?

Paccar Inc's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 101 patents, ranking #100 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 96 CPC subclasses total.

Is Paccar Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Paccar Inc's recent grant velocity is +142% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Paccar Inc's patents?

Paccar Inc's patents average 8.5 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.

How is the Paccar 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

Paccar Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 538 granted patents across 96 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Paccar ranks #848 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 538 patents across 96 technology areas.

#848
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.9/100): 8.5
avg claims per patent: +142%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R848 · US Corporation #848 · 538 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 538 grants
TOP-DECILE #848/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Citic Dicastal
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 96 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +142% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Citic Dicastal Co., Ltd. (±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 Paccar’s 60.9 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 21.7 pts (36%) Velocity 9.1 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 5.1 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agco International · near

61
Kawasaki Jukogyo · near

61
KHS · near

61
Paccar · this assignee

61
Trimble · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Paccar's Innovation Score is 60.9/100 (top 3% 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 Paccar?

Each dot is one of Paccar’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). Paccar’s own 8.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Paccar's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Paccar Inc received 353 grants versus 146 in 2015–2019 (+142% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 88 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 19. Lead class Y02T accounts for 18.8% of the portfolio across 96 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (#844) and Medos International Sarl (#852).

Paccar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Paccar Inc moved from 163 to 223 grants (1.37x 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 #553. See the growth leaderboard.

Siemens Healthcar…

541
Keysight

540
Primax

539
Citic Dicastal

538
Siemens Gamesa Re…

538
Paccar ◀

538
Stmicroelectronic…

537
Technion Research…

537
Medos Internation…

535

What this shows Paccar holds 538 patents at rank #848, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Paccar

By rank, the assignees closest to #848 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Paccar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Paccar ranks #100 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

KHS GmbH 61 Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 61 Agco International GmbH 61 Trimble Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.5 here).

Maxlite, Inc 8.5 avg Noritake Co., Limited 8.5 avg China Medical University 8.5 avg Hitachi High-tech Science Corporation 8.4 avg

Paccar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Paccar Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	6.3%
2016	31	5.8%
2017	29	5.4%
2018	19	3.5%
2019	33	6.1%
2020	49	9.1%
2021	81	15.1%
2022	75	13.9%
2023	60	11.2%
2024	88	16.4%
2025partial year	39	7.2%

Which technologies does Paccar Inc patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 101

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 51

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 47

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 44

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 43

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 33

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 27

B01D - Separation 21

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 19

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

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 12

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 10

Top 15 of 96 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Paccar Inc's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 18.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #848 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Paccar Inc against Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.9/100 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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