Where does Workhorse Group Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Workhorse Group Inc. ranks #5,727 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 Workhorse Group Inc. hold?

Workhorse Group Inc. holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Workhorse Group Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Workhorse Group Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.7 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Workhorse Group Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +5300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Workhorse Group Inc.'s patents?

Workhorse Group Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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 Workhorse Group 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

Workhorse Group Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Workhorse Group Inc. focus on?

Workhorse Group Inc.'s top technology area is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply ) with 33 patents, ranking #115 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Workhorse ranks #5,727 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 27 technology areas.

#5,727
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.7/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +5300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5727 · US Corporation #5,727 · 60 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,727/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH [24]7 ai
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 27 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +5300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: [24]7.ai, 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 Workhorse’s 63.7 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 14.2 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 18.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Huazhong University… · near

64
International Truck… · near

64
STMicroelectronics… · near

64
Workhorse Group · this assignee

64
AWI Licensing · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Workhorse's Innovation Score is 63.7/100 (top 2% 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 Workhorse?

Each dot is one of Workhorse’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). Workhorse’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Workhorse's grants concentrate

Workhorse Group Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 55% of grants classified under B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Workhorse sits between Wowza Media Systems, LLC and [24]7.ai, Inc..

Workhorse's three-year grant acceleration

Workhorse Group Inc. shows 52 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Wowza Media Syste…

60
Wuyi University

60
Winfield Solutions

60
Woods Hole Oceano…

60
Wyatt Technology

60
Zhejiang Prulde E…

60
Zonar Systems

60
[24]7 ai

60
Workhorse Group ◀

60

What this shows Workhorse holds 60 patents at rank #5,727, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Workhorse

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,727 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Workhorse, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Workhorse ranks #115 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC 64 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 64 STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS 64 AWI Licensing LLC 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Wickr Inc. 18.6 avg THE University OF Liverpool 18.6 avg Visa U.S.A. Inc. 18.6 avg OneSubsea IP UK Limited 18.6 avg

Workhorse's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Workhorse Group Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	1.7%
2021	2	3.3%
2022	21	35.0%
2023	13	21.7%
2024	18	30.0%
2025partial year	5	8.3%

Which technologies does Workhorse Group Inc. patent most?

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 33

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 28

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 26

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 25

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 24

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 23

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 22

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 22

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 21

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 18

B66D - CAPSTANS; WINCHES; Tackles, e.g. Pulley BLOCKS; Hoists 18

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 17

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 17

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 17

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 17

Top 15 of 27 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

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

Workhorse Group Inc.'s lead technology class is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb), 55% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #5,727 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Workhorse Group Inc. against Wowza Media Systems, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.7/100 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.

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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