Where does THE Toro Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Toro Company ranks #1,671 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 THE Toro Company hold?

THE Toro Company holds 247 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 95 technology areas.

What is THE Toro Company's Innovation Score?

THE Toro Company has an Innovation Score of 61.9 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 THE Toro Company focus on?

THE Toro Company's top technology area is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing) with 76 patents. Grants appear in 95 CPC subclasses total.

Is THE Toro Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Toro Company's recent grant velocity is +43% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for THE Toro Company's patents?

THE Toro Company's patents average 14.7 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 THE Toro Company 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

THE Toro Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 247 granted patents across 95 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: A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, THE ranks #1,671 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 247 patents across 95 technology areas.

#1,671
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.9/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1671 · US Corporation #1,671 · 247 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 247 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,671/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Honeywell Federal…
CPC-WIDE A01D · 95 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rakuten Mobile · near

62
Institute OF… · near

62
Johnson Controls… · near

62
THE Toro · this assignee

62
The Chinese… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 61.9/100 (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.

How THE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, THE Toro Company received 129 grants versus 90 in 2015–2019 (+43% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 15. Lead class A01D accounts for 30.8% of the portfolio across 95 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC (#1,665) and Symrise AG (#1,673).

THE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, THE Toro Company moved from 62 to 84 grants (1.35x 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 #573. See the growth leaderboard.

Honeywell Federal…

247
J Choo

247
Nice

247
Saint-gobain Cera…

247
Teknologian tutki…

247
Tobii AB

247
iheart Media Mana…

247
THE Toro ◀

247
Symrise

246

What this shows THE holds 247 patents at rank #1,669, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near THE

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,669 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01D (Harvesting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for THE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Johnson Controls Technology Company 62 Institute OF Semiconductors, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 62 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 62 Rakuten Mobile, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

SIG Sauer Inc. 14.7 avg Entegris, Inc. 14.7 avg Sensors Incorporated 14.7 avg Ultradent Products, Inc. 14.7 avg

THE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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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THE Toro Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	6.1%
2016	19	7.7%
2017	18	7.3%
2018	21	8.5%
2019	17	6.9%
2020	25	10.1%
2021	20	8.1%
2022	19	7.7%
2023	30	12.1%
2024	35	14.2%
2025partial year	28	11.3%

Which technologies does THE Toro Company patent most?

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 76

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 51

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 27

E01H - Street CLEANING; Cleaning OF Permanent WAYS; Cleaning BEACHES; Dispersing ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN General ; Cleaning Street OR Railway Furniture OR Tunnel Walls 27

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 21

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 18

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 17

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 15

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 12

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 11

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 8

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 8

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 7

Top 15 of 95 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,671

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

THE Toro Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

THE Toro Company's lead technology class is A01D (HARVESTING; Mowing), 30.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01D
Ranked #1,671 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Toro Company against Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.9/100 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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