Where does BorgWarner Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BorgWarner Inc. ranks #379 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 BorgWarner Inc. hold?

BorgWarner Inc. holds 1,156 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 108 technology areas.

What is BorgWarner Inc.'s Innovation Score?

BorgWarner Inc. has an Innovation Score of 62.1 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 BorgWarner Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BorgWarner Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -32% 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 BorgWarner Inc.'s patents?

BorgWarner Inc.'s patents average 14.9 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 BorgWarner 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

BorgWarner Inc.

Q: What technology areas does BorgWarner Inc. focus on?

BorgWarner Inc.'s top technology area is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants) with 358 patents, ranking #16 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 108 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,156 granted patents across 108 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: F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Borgwarner ranks #379 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,156 patents across 108 technology areas.

#379
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.1/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R379 · US Corporation #379 · 1,156 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #379/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Disco
CPC-WIDE F05D · 108 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Disco Corporation (±1 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 Borgwarner’s 62.1 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 24.4 pts (39%) Velocity 3.8 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avago International… · near

62
Mitsubishi Chemical · near

62
BorgWarner · this assignee

62
Saint-gobain… · near

62
Hamamatsu Photonics… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Borgwarner's Innovation Score is 62.1/100 (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 Borgwarner?

Each dot is one of Borgwarner’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). Borgwarner’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Borgwarner's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, BorgWarner Inc. received 453 grants versus 669 in 2015–2019 (-32% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 180 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 56. Lead class F05D accounts for 31% of the portfolio across 108 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Syngenta Participations AG (#375) and Ciena Corporation (#383).

Borgwarner's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, BorgWarner Inc. moved from 390 to 225 grants (0.58x 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 #2,501. See the growth leaderboard.

Syngenta Particip…

1,167
Sprint Spectrum

1,166
Dai Nippon Printi…

1,164
Disco

1,157
Borgwarner ◀

1,156
Analog Devices

1,151
The United States…

1,151
Cypress Semicondu…

1,149
Ciena

1,148

What this shows BorgWarner holds 1,156 patents at rank #379, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BorgWarner

By rank, the assignees closest to #379 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BorgWarner, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…), BorgWarner ranks #16 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Corporation 62 Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation 62 Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. 62 Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Commissariat A L'energie Atomique ET AUX Energies Alternatives 14.9 avg Intelligent Energy Limited 14.9 avg Bombardier Transportation GmbH 14.9 avg Konecranes Global Corporation 14.9 avg

Borgwarner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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 · 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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BorgWarner Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	88	7.6%
2016	98	8.5%
2017	141	12.2%
2018	180	15.6%
2019	162	14.0%
2020	121	10.5%
2021	107	9.3%
2022	102	8.8%
2023	56	4.8%
2024	67	5.8%
2025partial year	34	2.9%

Which technologies does BorgWarner Inc. patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 358

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 344

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 331

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 320

F16H - Gearing 230

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 208

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 188

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 146

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 139

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 138

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 109

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 97

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 92

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 87

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 64

Top 15 of 108 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

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

BorgWarner Inc.'s lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 31% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #379 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BorgWarner Inc. against Syngenta Participations AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.1/100 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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