Where does Dana Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dana Limited ranks #6,516 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 Limited hold?

Dana Limited holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Dana Limited's Innovation Score?

Dana Limited has an Innovation Score of 63.7 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 Limited focus on?

Dana Limited's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 36 patents, ranking #108 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dana Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dana Limited's recent grant velocity is -81% 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 Limited's patents?

Dana Limited's patents average 15.7 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 Limited 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 Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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 #6,516 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 34 technology areas.

#6,516
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.7/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6516 · US Corporation #6,516 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,516/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Corn Products…
CPC-FOCUS F16H · 34 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Corn Products Development, 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 63.7 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 13.6 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 20.6 pts (32%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AWI Licensing · near

64
Dana · this assignee

64
Greatbatch · near

64
Sumitomo Heavy… · near

64
Teradyne · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dana's Innovation Score is 63.7/100 (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 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 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 Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 70.6% of grants classified under F16H (Gearing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Dana sits between Corn Products Development, Inc. and Ezconn Corporation.

Dana's three-year grant acceleration

Dana Limited shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Corn Products Dev…

51
Cotapaxi Custom D…

51
D&M Holdings

51
D R Systems

51
Denali Therapeuti…

51
Digital Ally

51
Elite Material

51
Ezconn

51
Dana ◀

51

What this shows Dana holds 51 patents at rank #6,518, 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 #6,518 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 #108 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Teradyne, Inc. 64 Greatbatch Ltd. 64 Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. 64 AWI Licensing LLC 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

The North Face Apparel Corp. 15.7 avg UNIVERSITÉ DE Lille 15.7 avg Bystronic Laser AG 15.7 avg Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited 15.7 avg

Dana's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	9.8%
2016	6	11.8%
2017	17	33.3%
2018	14	27.5%
2019	1	2.0%
2021	1	2.0%
2022	1	2.0%
2023	1	2.0%
2024	5	9.8%

Which technologies does Dana Limited patent most?

F16H - Gearing 36

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 10

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 9

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 7

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 5

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 4

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 3

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 2

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 2

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Dana Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dana Limited's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 70.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #6,516 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dana Limited against Corn Products Development, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.