Where does Polaris Industries Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Polaris Industries Inc. ranks #814 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 Polaris Industries Inc. hold?

Polaris Industries Inc. holds 563 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 104 technology areas.

What is Polaris Industries Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Polaris Industries Inc. has an Innovation Score of 66.6 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%).

Is Polaris Industries Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Polaris Industries Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +94% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Polaris Industries Inc.'s patents?

Polaris Industries Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 Polaris Industries 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

Polaris Industries Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Polaris Industries Inc. focus on?

Polaris Industries Inc.'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 201 patents, ranking #24 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 104 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 563 granted patents across 104 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, Polaris ranks #814 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 563 patents across 104 technology areas.

#814
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.6/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R814 · US Corporation #814 · 563 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 563 grants
TOP-DECILE #814/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Under Armour
CPC-WIDE B60K · 104 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Under Armour, 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 Polaris’s 66.6 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 21.9 pts (33%) Velocity 8.5 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The General Hospital · near

67
Polaris Industries · this assignee

67
Gree Electric… · near

67
Olympus Medical… · near

67
University of Rhode… · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Polaris's Innovation Score is 66.6/100 (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 Polaris?

Each dot is one of Polaris’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). Polaris’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Polaris's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Polaris Industries Inc. received 324 grants versus 167 in 2015–2019 (+94% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 83 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 23. Lead class B60K accounts for 35.7% of the portfolio across 104 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Wonderland Switzerland AG (#810) and Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki (#818).

Polaris's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Polaris Industries Inc. moved from 160 to 204 grants (1.27x 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 #676. See the growth leaderboard.

Wonderland Switze…

570
Hill-rom Services

569
Tetra Laval Holdi…

568
Sekisui Chemical

565
Under Armour

563
Polaris Industries ◀

563
Arts

561
Gilead Sciences

561
Yaskawa Denki

561

What this shows Polaris holds 563 patents at rank #814, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Polaris

By rank, the assignees closest to #814 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Polaris, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Polaris ranks #24 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation 67 Gree Electric Appliances (WUHAN) Co., Ltd 67 University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees 67 The General Hospital Corporation 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Hartford Fire Insurance Company 18.7 avg Imagination Technologies Limited 18.7 avg Enseo, LLC 18.7 avg AtriCure, Inc. 18.7 avg

Polaris's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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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Polaris Industries Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	42	7.5%
2016	23	4.1%
2017	38	6.7%
2018	24	4.3%
2019	40	7.1%
2020	55	9.8%
2021	65	11.5%
2022	58	10.3%
2023	63	11.2%
2024	83	14.7%
2025partial year	72	12.8%

Which technologies does Polaris Industries Inc. 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 201

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 185

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 135

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 121

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 99

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 75

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 65

F16H - Gearing 57

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 55

B62K - CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like 55

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 48

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 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 45

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 41

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 30

Top 15 of 104 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

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

Polaris Industries Inc.'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), 35.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #814 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Polaris Industries Inc. against Wonderland Switzerland AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.6/100 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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