Where does Poclain Hydraulics Industrie rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Poclain Hydraulics Industrie ranks #5,308 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 Poclain Hydraulics Industrie hold?

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's Innovation Score?

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie has an Innovation Score of 45.5 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's patents?

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's patents average 15.4 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 Poclain Hydraulics Industrie 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 Foreign Corporation

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie

Q: What technology areas does Poclain Hydraulics Industrie focus on?

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's top technology area is 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 ) with 30 patents, ranking #121 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 30 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Poclain ranks #5,308 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 30 technology areas.

#5,308
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.5/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5308 · Foreign Corporation #5,308 · 65 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,308/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nielsen Consumer
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nielsen Consumer LLC (±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 Poclain’s 45.5 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 14.5 pts (32%) Velocity 2.4 pts (5%) Breadth 19.4 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kofax · near

45
CaaStle · near

45
Debiotech · near

45
Kuka Roboter · near

45
Poclain Hydraulics… · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Poclain's Innovation Score is 45.5/100 (top 23% 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 Poclain?

Each dot is one of Poclain’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). Poclain’s own 15.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Poclain's grants concentrate

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 46.2% of grants classified under 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 Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Poclain sits between Nielsen Consumer LLC and REIFENHÄUSER GMBH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik.

Poclain's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Poclain Hydraulics Industrie moved from 28 to 10 grants (0.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Nielsen Consumer

65
Novatel

65
Optasense Holdings

65
P4tents1

65
Primetals Germany

65
Provisur

65
Putzmeister Engin…

65
ReifenhÄUSER & KG…

65
Poclain Hydraulic… ◀

65

What this shows Poclain holds 65 patents at rank #5,307, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Poclain

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,307 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Poclain, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Poclain ranks #121 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

CaaStle, Inc 45 Debiotech S.A. 45 Kuka Roboter GmbH 45 Kofax, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Contitech Transportbandsysteme GmBH 15.4 avg Enkris Semiconductor, Inc. 15.4 avg Etron Technology, Inc. 15.4 avg Egis Technology Inc. 15.4 avg

Poclain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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Poclain Hydraulics Industrie patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	6.2%
2016	9	13.8%
2017	6	9.2%
2018	3	4.6%
2019	11	16.9%
2020	11	16.9%
2021	6	9.2%
2022	4	6.2%
2023	3	4.6%
2024	3	4.6%
2025partial year	5	7.7%

Which technologies does Poclain Hydraulics Industrie patent most?

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 30

F03C - Positive-displacement Engines Driven BY Liquids 27

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 25

F16H - Gearing 24

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

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 11

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 10

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 8

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 3

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 2

Top 15 of 30 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

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Poclain Hydraulics Industrie's lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 46.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #5,308 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Poclain Hydraulics Industrie against Nielsen Consumer LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.5/100 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

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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