Where does AGC Automotive Americas Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), AGC Automotive Americas Co. ranks #22,144 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 AGC Automotive Americas Co. hold?

AGC Automotive Americas Co. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s Innovation Score?

AGC Automotive Americas Co. has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does AGC Automotive Americas Co. focus on?

AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 8 patents, ranking #499 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s patents?

AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s patents average 25.5 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 AGC Automotive Americas Co. 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

AGC Automotive Americas Co.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 17 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, AGC ranks #22,144 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 17 technology areas.

#22,144
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 25.5
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22144 · US Corporation #22,144 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,144/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aduro Biotech…
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aduro Biotech Holdings, Europe B.V. (±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 AGC’s 47.3 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 8.9 pts (19%) Velocity 8.9 pts (19%) Breadth 14.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AGC Automotive… · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows AGC's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% 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 AGC?

Each dot is one of AGC’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). AGC’s own 25.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where AGC's grants concentrate

AGC Automotive Americas Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, AGC sits between Aduro Biotech Holdings, Europe B.V. and Aiqudo, Inc.

AGC's three-year grant acceleration

AGC Automotive Americas Co. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Aduro Biotech Hol…

12
Advanced Internat…

12
AF Chemicals

12
Affimed

12
AGI Suretrack

12
Agiga Tech

12
AIM Design

12
Aiqudo

12
AGC Automotive Am… ◀

12

What this shows AGC holds 12 patents at rank #22,125, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near AGC

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,125 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

AGC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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AGC Automotive Americas Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	25.0%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	3	25.0%
2025partial year	2	16.7%

Which technologies does AGC Automotive Americas Co. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 8

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 7

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 6

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 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 3

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 1

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

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 1

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Top 15 of 17 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

AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

AGC Automotive Americas Co.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #22,144 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare AGC Automotive Americas Co. against Aduro Biotech Holdings, Europe B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 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

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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

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