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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC ranks #1,707 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 Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC hold?

Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC holds 240 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

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

Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC has an Innovation Score of 63.2 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%).

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

Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 125 patents, ranking #33 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

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

Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC's recent grant velocity is +206% 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 Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC's patents?

Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC's patents average 16.4 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 Heavy Vehicle 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 Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 240 granted patents across 47 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 #1,707 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 240 patents across 47 technology areas.

#1,707
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.2/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +206%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1707 · US Corporation #1,707 · 240 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 240 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,707/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arkray
CPC-WIDE F16H · 47 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +206% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arkray, 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 63.2 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 18.9 pts (30%) Velocity 10.1 pts (16%) Breadth 24.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Siemens Healthcare… · near

63
Augustine Biomedical… · near

63
Dana Heavy Vehicle… · this assignee

63
Fresenius Medical… · near

63
Korea Institute OF… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dana's Innovation Score is 63.2/100 (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 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 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 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 Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 52.1% of grants classified under F16H (Gearing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (43 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Dana sits between Roland Corporation and Theravance Biopharma R&D IP, LLC.

Dana's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC moved from 75 to 114 grants (1.52x 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 #437. See the growth leaderboard.

Roland

241
Sony Olympus Medi…

241
Southwire

241
Arkray

240
Dana Heavy Vehicl… ◀

240
Entit Software

239
Medtronic Xomed

239
Nikkiso

239
Theravance Biopha…

239

What this shows Dana holds 240 patents at rank #1,707, 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 #1,707 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 #33 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH 63 Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology 63 Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC 63 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

DH Technologies Development PTE. Ltd. 16.4 avg Auburn University 16.4 avg Pharmacyclics LLC 16.4 avg Kids II, Inc. 16.4 avg

Dana's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 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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Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.3%
2016	16	6.7%
2017	6	2.5%
2018	5	2.1%
2019	24	10.0%
2020	26	10.8%
2021	25	10.4%
2022	43	17.9%
2023	32	13.3%
2024	39	16.3%
2025partial year	21	8.8%

Which technologies does Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC patent most?

F16H - Gearing 125

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 125

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 73

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 50

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 32

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 27

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 25

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 24

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 23

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 23

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 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

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 15

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

Top 15 of 47 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 Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 52.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #1,707 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC against Roland Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.2/100 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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