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Union Pacific Railroad Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 19 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: B61L (GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Union ranks #18,242 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 19 technology areas.

#18,242
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.8/100)
23.3
avg claims per patent
-40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18242 · US Corporation #18,242 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
  • MID-PACK #18,242/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH UJET
  • CPC-FOCUS B61L · 19 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 55.8/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 23.3 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DOWN -40% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: UJET, 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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Union

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Union Pacific Railroad Company stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-DENSE, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #18,242 of 50,000; Innovation Score 55.8/100 sits in the top 7% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is UJET, Inc. (±0 grants).

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Portfolio overview

Union Pacific Railroad Company has been granted 16 US utility patents between 2015 and 2024, placing Union Pacific Railroad Company at #18,242 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 19 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 23.3 claims per patent with primary concentration in B61L (GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC). As a US Corporation, Union Pacific Railroad Company is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Union sits between UJET, Inc. (16 patents, rank #18,232) and Università Degli Studi DI Cagliari (16 patents, rank #18,240) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 55.8/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 6 grants, compared with 10 in the 2015–2019 window, a -40% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Union Pacific Railroad Company's 23.3 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 19 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Who files at Union's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Union holds 16 patents at rank #18,236, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Union

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,236 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic)

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

Union's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). Below this entry. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Below this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). This entry sits in this band. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Union Pacific Railroad Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 4 25.0%
2016 1 6.3%
2017 4 25.0%
2019 1 6.3%
2021 1 6.3%
2022 2 12.5%
2023 1 6.3%
2024 2 12.5%

Which technologies does Union Pacific Railroad Company patent most?

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#18,242

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?
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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.