Where does Trimble Navigation Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trimble Navigation Limited ranks #2,051 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 Navigation Limited hold?

Trimble Navigation Limited holds 194 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Trimble Navigation Limited's Innovation Score?

Trimble Navigation Limited has an Innovation Score of 58.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Trimble Navigation Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trimble Navigation Limited's recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Navigation Limited's patents?

Trimble Navigation Limited's patents average 22.1 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 Navigation Limited 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 Navigation Limited

Q: What technology areas does Trimble Navigation Limited focus on?

Trimble Navigation Limited'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 64 patents, ranking #94 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 194 granted patents across 60 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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 #2,051 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 194 patents across 60 technology areas.

#2,051
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.7/100): 22.1
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2051 · US Corporation #2,051 · 194 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 194 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,051/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Siemens Schweiz
CPC-WIDE G01S · 60 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Siemens Schweiz AG (±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 58.7 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 18.2 pts (31%) Velocity 2.2 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Consolidated… · near

59
Dialog Semiconductor… · near

59
Trimble Navigation · this assignee

59
Universiteit Antwerpen · near

59
National University… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trimble's Innovation Score is 58.7/100 (top 4% 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 22.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 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.

How Trimble's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Trimble Navigation Limited received 5 grants versus 189 in 2015–2019 (-97% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 92 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class G01S accounts for 33% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Siemens Schweiz AG (#2,047) and MCP IP, LLC (#2,055).

Trimble's three-year grant acceleration

Trimble Navigation Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Siemens Schweiz

194
Telecommunication…

194
Tongji University

194
Tivo

194
Trimble Navigation ◀

194
Afton Chemical

193
Baoshan Iron & St…

193
Hiwin

193
MCP IP

193

What this shows Trimble holds 194 patents at rank #2,051, 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 #2,051 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). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Trimble ranks #94 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Dialog Semiconductor (UK) Limited 59 Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC 59 Universiteit Antwerpen 59 National University Corporation Hokkaido University 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.1 here).

Cloudera, Inc. 22.1 avg Silanna UV Technologies Pte Ltd 22.1 avg STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 22.2 avg Insurance Services Office, Inc. 22.1 avg

Trimble's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

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 Navigation Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	76	39.2%
2016	92	47.4%
2017	8	4.1%
2018	10	5.2%
2019	3	1.5%
2020	2	1.0%
2021	1	0.5%
2022	1	0.5%
2023	1	0.5%

Which technologies does Trimble Navigation Limited 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 64

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 56

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 38

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 31

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 21

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 21

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 18

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 15

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 14

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 14

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 12

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 11

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 8

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

Top 15 of 60 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

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

Trimble Navigation Limited'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), 33% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #2,051 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trimble Navigation Limited against Siemens Schweiz AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.7/100 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.

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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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