Where does Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC ranks #1,546 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 Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC hold?

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC holds 268 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's Innovation Score?

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC has an Innovation Score of 69.5 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%).

What technology areas does Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC focus on?

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 129 patents, ranking #31 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's recent grant velocity is +104% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's patents?

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's patents average 15.4 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 Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC 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

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 268 granted patents across 60 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dana ranks #1,546 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 268 patents across 60 technology areas.

#1,546
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.5/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +104%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1546 · US Corporation #1,546 · 268 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 268 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,546/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Infosys
CPC-WIDE F16H · 60 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +104% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Infosys Limited (±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 Dana’s 69.5 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 19.3 pts (28%) Velocity 16.0 pts (23%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shopify · near

70
Dana Automotive… · this assignee

70
Ricoh · near

70
Universite Paris-sac… · near

70
UNIVERSITÉ Paris CITÉ · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dana's Innovation Score is 69.5/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Dana?

Each dot is one of Dana’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). Dana’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Dana's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC received 167 grants versus 82 in 2015–2019 (+104% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 51 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 4. Lead class F16H accounts for 48.1% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (#1,542) and Azbil Corporation (#1,550).

Dana's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC moved from 56 to 134 grants (2.39x 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 #132. See the growth leaderboard.

Katholieke Univer…

270
Tile

270
Advanced Connectek

269
Endress+Hauser SE…

269
Infosys

268
Kepler Computing

268
University of Sci…

268
Dana Automotive S… ◀

268
Azbil

267

What this shows Dana holds 268 patents at rank #1,546, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dana

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,546 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dana, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), Dana ranks #31 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Shopify Inc. 70 Ricoh Company, Ltd. 70 Universite Paris-saclay 70 UNIVERSITÉ Paris CITÉ 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Bfly Operations, Inc. 15.4 avg Evonik Röhm GmbH 15.4 avg China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute 15.4 avg Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH 15.4 avg

Dana's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 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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Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	3.7%
2016	17	6.3%
2017	17	6.3%
2018	15	5.6%
2019	23	8.6%
2020	4	1.5%
2021	29	10.8%
2022	38	14.2%
2023	51	19.0%
2024	45	16.8%
2025partial year	19	7.1%

Which technologies does Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC patent most?

F16H - Gearing 129

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 104

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 104

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 52

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 33

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 21

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 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 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 16

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 16

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 10

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 9

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 7

Top 15 of 60 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

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 48.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #1,546 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC against Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.5/100 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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