Where does Calsonic Kansei Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Calsonic Kansei Corporation ranks #2,783 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 Calsonic Kansei Corporation hold?

Calsonic Kansei Corporation holds 138 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is Calsonic Kansei Corporation's Innovation Score?

Calsonic Kansei Corporation has an Innovation Score of 47.2 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%).

Is Calsonic Kansei Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Calsonic Kansei Corporation's recent grant velocity is -84% 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 Calsonic Kansei Corporation's patents?

Calsonic Kansei Corporation's patents average 8.3 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 Calsonic Kansei Corporation 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

Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Calsonic Kansei Corporation focus on?

Calsonic Kansei Corporation'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 25 patents, ranking #130 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 138 granted patents across 80 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Calsonic ranks #2,783 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 138 patents across 80 technology areas.

#2,783
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.2/100): 8.3
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2783 · Foreign Corporation #2,783 · 138 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 138 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,783/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avigilon
CPC-WIDE B60K · 80 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avigilon Corporation (±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 Calsonic’s 47.2 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 17.0 pts (36%) Velocity 0.1 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (53%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bentley Motors · near

47
Dejero Labs · near

47
Innovium · near

47
Calsonic Kansei · this assignee

47
L'ORÉAL · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Calsonic's Innovation Score is 47.2/100 (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 Calsonic?

Each dot is one of Calsonic’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). Calsonic’s own 8.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Calsonic's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Calsonic Kansei Corporation received 19 grants versus 119 in 2015–2019 (-84% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 1. Lead class B60K accounts for 18.1% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SoftBank Corp. (#2,779) and Dell Software Inc. (#2,787).

Calsonic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Calsonic Kansei Corporation moved from 47 to 1 grants (0.02x 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 #3,267. See the growth leaderboard.

Softbank

139
Spirit Aerosystems

139
Avigilon

138
Cal-comp & Commun…

138
Claas Selbstfahre…

138
Conversant Intell…

138
Divx

138
Dell Software

138
Calsonic Kansei ◀

138

What this shows Calsonic holds 138 patents at rank #2,783, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Calsonic

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,783 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Calsonic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Calsonic ranks #130 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

L'ORÉAL 47 Innovium, Inc. 47 Bentley Motors Limited 47 Dejero Labs Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.3 here).

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. 8.3 avg Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd. 8.3 avg Sanoh Industrial Co. , Ltd. 8.3 avg Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. 8.3 avg

Calsonic'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 · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Calsonic Kansei Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	16.7%
2016	14	10.1%
2017	34	24.6%
2018	19	13.8%
2019	29	21.0%
2020	11	8.0%
2021	7	5.1%
2022	1	0.7%

Which technologies does Calsonic Kansei Corporation 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 25

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 22

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 19

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 14

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 14

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 14

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 13

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 13

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 10

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 9

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 8

Top 15 of 80 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Calsonic Kansei Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Calsonic Kansei Corporation'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), 18.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #2,783 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Calsonic Kansei Corporation against SoftBank Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.2/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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