Where does Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft ranks #98 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 Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft hold?

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft holds 3,749 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 250 technology areas.

What is Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's Innovation Score?

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft has an Innovation Score of 65.2 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's recent grant velocity is +45% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's patents?

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's patents average 9.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Q: What technology areas does Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft focus on?

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 527 patents. Grants appear in 250 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft 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 PatentsView assignee record - 3,749 granted patents across 250 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bayerische ranks #98 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,749 patents across 250 technology areas.

#98
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.2/100): 9.7
avg claims per patent: +45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R98 · Foreign Corporation #98 · 3,749 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #98/49,997
NEAR-PEER Xerox
CPC-BROAD Y02T · 250 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Xerox Corporation (±23 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bayerische Motoren… · this assignee

65
Medtronic Navigation · near

65
Mueller International · near

65
Baxter Healthcare · near

65
Gecko Robotics · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bayerische's Innovation Score is 65.2/100 (top 1% 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.

How Bayerische's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft received 2,003 grants versus 1,386 in 2015–2019 (+45% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 446 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 178. Lead class Y02T accounts for 14.1% of the portfolio across 250 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Renesas Electronics Corporation (#94) and Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (#102).

Bayerische's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft moved from 1,290 to 1,159 grants (0.90x 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 #1,486. See the growth leaderboard.

Renesas

3,882
Fanuc

3,797
Massachusetts Ins…

3,784
Xerox

3,772
Bayerische Motore… ◀

3,749
KIA

3,712
Sandisk

3,712
Fuji Xerox

3,629
Panasonic Intelle…

3,535

What this shows Bayerische holds 3,749 patents at rank #98, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bayerische

By rank, the assignees closest to #98 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bayerische, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Mueller International, LLC 65 Medtronic Navigation, Inc. 65 Baxter Healthcare SA 65 Gecko Robotics, Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.7 here).

CKD Corporation 9.7 avg FCA US LLC. 9.7 avg Unimicron Technology Corp. 9.7 avg Magpul Industries Corp. 9.7 avg

Bayerische's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	178	4.7%
2016	221	5.9%
2017	256	6.8%
2018	285	7.6%
2019	446	11.9%
2020	430	11.5%
2021	414	11.0%
2022	420	11.2%
2023	309	8.2%
2024	430	11.5%
2025partial year	360	9.6%

Which technologies does Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 527

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 404

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 346

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 325

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 321

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 308

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 293

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 245

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 159

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 132

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 126

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 123

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 123

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 111

F16H - Gearing 109

Top 15 of 250 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#98

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

65.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 14.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #98 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft against Renesas Electronics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.2/100 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

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