Where does Trinity Rail Group, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trinity Rail Group, LLC ranks #7,789 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 Trinity Rail Group, LLC hold?

Trinity Rail Group, LLC holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Trinity Rail Group, LLC's Innovation Score?

Trinity Rail Group, LLC has an Innovation Score of 50.9 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Trinity Rail Group, LLC focus on?

Trinity Rail Group, LLC's top technology area is B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles) with 38 patents, ranking #3 of 155 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Trinity Rail Group, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trinity Rail Group, LLC's recent grant velocity is +1800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Trinity Rail Group, LLC's patents?

Trinity Rail Group, LLC's patents average 15.7 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 Trinity Rail Group, LLC 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

Trinity Rail Group, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trinity ranks #7,789 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 33 technology areas.

#7,789
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.9/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +1800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7789 · US Corporation #7,789 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,789/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SugarCRM
CPC-FOCUS B61D · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SugarCRM, 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 Trinity’s 50.9 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 13.0 pts (26%) Velocity 8.1 pts (16%) Breadth 20.3 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Komax Holding · near

51
Ouster · near

51
Poly-clip System & KG · near

51
Trinity Rail Group · this assignee

51
Wanhua Chemical Group · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trinity's Innovation Score is 50.9/100 (top 12% 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 Trinity?

Each dot is one of Trinity’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). Trinity’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Trinity's grants concentrate

Trinity Rail Group, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 90.5% of grants classified under B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Trinity sits between SugarCRM, Inc. and Thin Film Electronics ASA.

Trinity's three-year grant acceleration

Trinity Rail Group, LLC shows 22 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Sugarcrm

42
Swatch

42
Tanita

42
Tovis

42
Tudor Watch U

42
The Methodist Hos…

42
The Ritsumeikan T…

42
Thin Film ASA

42
Trinity Rail Group ◀

42

What this shows Trinity holds 42 patents at rank #7,784, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trinity

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,784 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Trinity, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles), Trinity ranks #3 of 155 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Poly-clip System GMBH & Co. KG 51 Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. 51 Ouster, Inc. 51 Komax Holding AG 51

Trinity's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Trinity Rail Group, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	4.8%
2020	7	16.7%
2021	9	21.4%
2022	5	11.9%
2023	12	28.6%
2024	5	11.9%
2025partial year	2	4.8%

Which technologies does Trinity Rail Group, LLC patent most?

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 38

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 9

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 6

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B61G - COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances 2

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 1

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 1

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 1

Top 15 of 33 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

Trinity Rail Group, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trinity Rail Group, LLC's lead technology class is B61D (Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles), 90.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61D
Ranked #7,789 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trinity Rail Group, LLC against SugarCRM, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.9/100 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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