Where does Dana Canada Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dana Canada Corporation ranks #2,988 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 Canada Corporation hold?

Dana Canada Corporation holds 127 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Dana Canada Corporation's Innovation Score?

Dana Canada Corporation has an Innovation Score of 55.1 out of 100 (top 7% 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 Canada Corporation focus on?

Dana Canada Corporation's top technology area is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application) with 106 patents, ranking #8 of 794 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dana Canada Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dana Canada Corporation's recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Dana Canada Corporation's patents?

Dana Canada Corporation's patents average 16.8 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 Canada 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

Dana Canada Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 127 granted patents across 43 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: F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dana ranks #2,988 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 127 patents across 43 technology areas.

#2,988
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.1/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2988 · Foreign Corporation #2,988 · 127 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 127 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,988/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Axsome Therapeutics
CPC-WIDE F28F · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. (±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 55.1 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 16.8 pts (30%) Velocity 5.1 pts (9%) Breadth 23.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dana Canada · this assignee

55
George Mason… · near

55
Bank of Montreal · near

55
Ecolink Intelligent… · near

55
Enplas · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dana's Innovation Score is 55.1/100 (top 7% 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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 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.

Where Dana's grants concentrate

Dana Canada Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 83.5% of grants classified under F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (22 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2015. By volume, Dana sits between Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. and Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc..

Dana's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dana Canada Corporation moved from 42 to 32 grants (0.76x 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 #1,955. See the growth leaderboard.

Axsome Therapeuti…

127
Basell Polyolefine

127
Centre National d…

127
Corning Cable Sys…

127
Ecolink Intellige…

127
FDK

127
Kuka Deutschland

127
Kulite Semiconduc…

127
Dana Canada ◀

127

What this shows Dana holds 127 patents at rank #2,988, 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 #2,988 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus)

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 F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus), Dana ranks #8 of 794 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

George Mason University 55 Ecolink Intelligent Technology, Inc. 55 Enplas Corporation 55 Bank of Montreal 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Adva Optical Networking SE 16.8 avg Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited 16.8 avg Itrec B.V. 16.8 avg Savant Technologies LLC 16.8 avg

Dana's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 Canada Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	3.9%
2016	10	7.9%
2017	10	7.9%
2018	22	17.3%
2019	16	12.6%
2020	14	11.0%
2021	12	9.4%
2022	19	15.0%
2023	7	5.5%
2024	6	4.7%
2025partial year	6	4.7%

Which technologies does Dana Canada Corporation patent most?

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 106

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 92

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 46

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 43

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 12

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 12

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 10

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 10

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 9

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 8

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 7

F16H - Gearing 7

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 6

Top 15 of 43 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 Canada Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dana Canada Corporation's lead technology class is F28F (Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application), 83.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F28F
Ranked #2,988 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dana Canada Corporation against Axsome Therapeutics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.1/100 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

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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