Where does Trimble AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trimble AB ranks #7,950 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 Trimble AB hold?

Trimble AB holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Trimble AB's Innovation Score?

Trimble AB has an Innovation Score of 44.8 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Trimble AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trimble AB's recent grant velocity is -59% 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 Trimble AB's patents?

Trimble AB's patents average 20.0 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 Trimble AB 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

Trimble AB

Q: What technology areas does Trimble AB focus on?

Trimble AB's top technology area is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry) with 25 patents, ranking #138 of 1,814 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trimble ranks #7,950 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 14 technology areas.

#7,950
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.8/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7950 · Foreign Corporation #7,950 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,950/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tata Communications…
CPC-FOCUS G01C · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tata Communications (America) 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 Trimble’s 44.8 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 12.9 pts (29%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 13.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biocytogen Pharmaceu… · near

45
FCI USA · near

45
inVia Robotics · near

45
Qnovo · near

45
Trimble AB · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trimble's Innovation Score is 44.8/100 (top 25% 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 Trimble?

Each dot is one of Trimble’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). Trimble’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Trimble's grants concentrate

Trimble AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 61% of grants classified under G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Trimble sits between Tata Communications (America) Inc. and UNIVERSITÉ Joseph Fourier.

Trimble's three-year grant acceleration

Trimble AB shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Tata Communicatio…

41
Thermo Fisher Sci…

41
Topera

41
Transmed7

41
True Velocity

41
Twistlock

41
Universiteit Leid…

41
UniversitÉ Joseph…

41
Trimble AB ◀

41

What this shows Trimble holds 41 patents at rank #7,951, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trimble

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,951 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01C (Measuring Distances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Trimble, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01C (Measuring Distances), Trimble ranks #138 of 1,814 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Qnovo Inc. 45 inVia Robotics, Inc. 45 Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. 45 FCI USA LLC 45

Trimble's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Trimble AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	17.1%
2016	6	14.6%
2017	5	12.2%
2018	7	17.1%
2019	4	9.8%
2020	3	7.3%
2021	1	2.4%
2022	4	9.8%
2023	3	7.3%
2024	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Trimble AB patent most?

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 25

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 23

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Trimble AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trimble AB's lead technology class is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry), 61% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01C
Ranked #7,950 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trimble AB against Tata Communications (America) Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.8/100 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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