Where does Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #2,469 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 Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. holds 158 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 144 patents, ranking #7 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.4 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 Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 158 granted patents across 42 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Akebono ranks #2,469 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 158 patents across 42 technology areas.

#2,469
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2469 · Foreign Corporation #2,469 · 158 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 158 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,469/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH C R F Societa'…
CPC-WIDE F16D · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: C.R.F. Societa' Consortile PER Azioni (±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 Akebono’s 51.9 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 17.5 pts (34%) Velocity 3.4 pts (7%) Breadth 22.9 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akebono Brake Industry · this assignee

52
Aledia · near

52
Daido Metal · near

52
Scott · near

52
Shanghai Avic… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Akebono's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 Akebono?

Each dot is one of Akebono’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). Akebono’s own 13.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Akebono's grants concentrate

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 91.1% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (25 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2022. By volume, Akebono sits between THE Glad Products Company and Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC.

Akebono's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. moved from 53 to 27 grants (0.51x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,671. See the growth leaderboard.

THE Glad Products

159
Touchtunes Music

159
UDC Ireland

159
Yahoo Ad Tech

159
C R F Societa' Co…

158
Docusign

158
Doosan Enerbility

158
Faurecia Automoti…

158
Akebono Brake Ind… ◀

158

What this shows Akebono holds 158 patents at rank #2,469, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Akebono

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,469 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Akebono, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation), Akebono ranks #7 of 1,090 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Shanghai Avic Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. 52 Daido Metal Company Ltd. 52 Aledia 52 Scott Technologies, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Archer-daniels-midland Company 13.4 avg TRW Limited 13.4 avg Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited 13.4 avg Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG 13.4 avg

Akebono's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	7.0%
2016	14	8.9%
2017	20	12.7%
2018	25	15.8%
2019	24	15.2%
2020	15	9.5%
2021	14	8.9%
2022	7	4.4%
2023	13	8.2%
2024	7	4.4%
2025partial year	8	5.1%

Which technologies does Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 144

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 36

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

B61H - Brakes OR Other Retarding Devices Specially Adapted FOR Rail VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Disposition Thereof IN Rail Vehicles 7

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

F16H - Gearing 6

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 4

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 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

C22C - Alloys 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 3

Top 15 of 42 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

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 91.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #2,469 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. against THE Glad Products Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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

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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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