Where does Progress Rail Services Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Progress Rail Services Corporation ranks #4,683 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 Services Corporation hold?

Progress Rail Services Corporation holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is Progress Rail Services Corporation's Innovation Score?

Progress Rail Services Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.2 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 Progress Rail Services Corporation focus on?

Progress Rail Services Corporation's top technology area is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic) with 28 patents, ranking #9 of 195 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

Is Progress Rail Services Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Progress Rail Services Corporation's recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Services Corporation's patents?

Progress Rail Services Corporation's patents average 16.8 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 Services Corporation 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 Services Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 51 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: B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Progress ranks #4,683 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 51 technology areas.

#4,683
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4683 · US Corporation #4,683 · 75 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,683/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pensando Systems
CPC-WIDE B61L · 51 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pensando Systems 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 Progress’s 61.2 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 (25%) Velocity 11.1 pts (18%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (17%)

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Progress Rail Services · this assignee

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What this shows Progress's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (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 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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 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 Services Corporation received 27 grants versus 44 in 2015–2019 (-39% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 3. Lead class B61L accounts for 37.3% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Pensando Systems Inc. (#4,679) and Shoei Co., Ltd. (#4,687).

Progress's three-year grant acceleration

Progress Rail Services Corporation shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

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What this shows Progress holds 75 patents at rank #4,683, 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 #4,683 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic)

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 B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic), Progress ranks #9 of 195 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. 61 Roland Corporation 61 Laitram, L.L.C. 61 The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Universite Paris-saclay 16.8 avg Institut National DE LA Recherche Scientifique 16.8 avg Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. 16.8 avg InnoGrit Technologies Co., Ltd. 16.8 avg

Progress'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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Progress Rail Services Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	20.0%
2016	11	14.7%
2017	5	6.7%
2018	8	10.7%
2019	5	6.7%
2020	3	4.0%
2021	4	5.3%
2022	7	9.3%
2023	6	8.0%
2024	7	9.3%
2025partial year	4	5.3%

Which technologies does Progress Rail Services Corporation patent most?

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 28

E01B - Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds 13

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 11

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 9

B61K - Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted FOR Railways, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

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 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 4

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 3

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 3

Top 15 of 51 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 Services Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Progress Rail Services Corporation's lead technology class is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic), 37.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61L
Ranked #4,683 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Progress Rail Services Corporation against Pensando Systems Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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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