Where does Trimble Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trimble Inc. ranks #1,314 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 Inc. hold?

Trimble Inc. holds 323 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 84 technology areas.

What is Trimble Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Trimble Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.9 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%).

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

Trimble Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -26% 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 Inc.'s patents?

Trimble Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 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

Trimble Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Trimble Inc. focus on?

Trimble Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 146 patents. Grants appear in 84 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 323 granted patents across 84 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trimble ranks #1,314 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 323 patents across 84 technology areas.

#1,314
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.9/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1314 · US Corporation #1,314 · 323 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 323 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,314/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Crown Equipment
CPC-WIDE G01S · 84 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Crown Equipment Corporation (±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
Agco International · near

61
Kawasaki Jukogyo · near

61
KHS · near

61
Paccar · near

61
Trimble · this assignee

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trimble's Innovation Score is 60.9/100 (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 Trimble's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Trimble Inc. received 128 grants versus 174 in 2015–2019 (-26% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 82 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 1. Lead class G01S accounts for 45.2% of the portfolio across 84 subclasses. Volume neighbours: UAB 360 IT (#1,310) and Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG (#1,318).

Trimble's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Trimble Inc. moved from 101 to 68 grants (0.67x 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 #2,237. See the growth leaderboard.

UAB 360 IT

324
Virginia Tech Int…

324
Crown Equipment

323
Rosemount

323
VIA

323
Verisign

323
Trimble ◀

323
Korea Institute O…

322
Karl Storz & KG

322

What this shows Trimble holds 323 patents at rank #1,314, 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 #1,314 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

KHS GmbH 61 Paccar Inc 61 Agco International GmbH 61 Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund 19.1 avg Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc. 19.1 avg Alivecor, Inc. 19.1 avg Orion Labs, Inc. 19.1 avg

Trimble'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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Trimble Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.3%
2017	82	25.4%
2018	50	15.5%
2019	41	12.7%
2020	33	10.2%
2021	27	8.4%
2022	20	6.2%
2023	25	7.7%
2024	23	7.1%
2025partial year	21	6.5%

Which technologies does Trimble Inc. patent most?

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 146

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 86

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 64

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 60

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 45

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 33

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 32

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 25

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 21

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 21

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 17

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 13

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 12

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

Top 15 of 84 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,314

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.9 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

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

Trimble Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Arra), 45.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #1,314 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trimble Inc. against UAB 360 IT, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.9/100 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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