Where does Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. ranks #4,682 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 Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. hold?

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. focus on?

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 28 patents, ranking #260 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s patents?

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 Progress Rail Locomotive 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

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 55 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Progress ranks #4,682 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 55 technology areas.

#4,682
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4682 · US Corporation #4,682 · 75 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,682/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Payrange
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Payrange 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 Progress’s 53.5 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 15.0 pts (28%) Velocity 2.9 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Alstom Technology · near

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Citizen Watch · near

53
Flooring · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Progress's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 Progress?

Each dot is one of Progress’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). Progress’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Progress's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. received 30 grants versus 40 in 2015–2019 (-25% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 20 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 37.3% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Payrange LLC (#4,678) and Sargent Manufacturing Company (#4,686).

Progress's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. moved from 35 to 15 grants (0.43x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Progress holds 75 patents at rank #4,682, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Progress

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,682 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Progress, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Progress ranks #260 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Alstom Technology Ltd 53 Fabric8labs, Inc. 53 Flooring Technologies Ltd. 53 Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Buerkert Werke GMBH 17.8 avg MSA Technology, LLC 17.8 avg LightLab Imaging, Inc. 17.8 avg Clariant International Ltd 17.8 avg

Progress's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	1.3%
2018	19	25.3%
2019	20	26.7%
2020	13	17.3%
2021	2	2.7%
2022	5	6.7%
2023	8	10.7%
2024	2	2.7%
2025partial year	5	6.7%

Which technologies does Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 28

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 19

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 16

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 15

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 10

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 9

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 9

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 8

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 7

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 7

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 6

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 6

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 4

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 3

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 3

Top 15 of 55 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

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Progress Rail Locomotive Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 37.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #4,682 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. against Payrange LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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

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