Where does Denso International America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Denso International America, Inc. ranks #601 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 Denso International America, Inc. hold?

Denso International America, Inc. holds 736 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 160 technology areas.

What is Denso International America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Denso International America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Denso International America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Denso International America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +2% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Denso International America, Inc.'s patents?

Denso International America, Inc.'s patents average 16.1 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 Denso International America, Inc. 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

Denso International America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Denso International America, Inc. focus on?

Denso International America, Inc.'s top technology area is B60H (Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles) with 135 patents, ranking #9 of 379 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 160 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 736 granted patents across 160 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: B60H (Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Denso ranks #601 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 736 patents across 160 technology areas.

#601
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.4/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R601 · US Corporation #601 · 736 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 736 grants
TOP-DECILE #601/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Husqvarna AB
CPC-WIDE B60H · 160 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Husqvarna AB (±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 Denso’s 60.4 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 22.8 pts (38%) Velocity 2.9 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Anritsu · near

60
Universiteit Gent · near

60
Denso International… · this assignee

60
Institute OF… · near

60
Saint-gobain Centre… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Denso's Innovation Score is 60.4/100 (top 3% 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 Denso?

Each dot is one of Denso’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). Denso’s own 16.1 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.

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

How Denso's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Denso International America, Inc. received 359 grants versus 353 in 2015–2019 (+2% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 124 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 22. Lead class B60H accounts for 18.3% of the portfolio across 160 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. (#597) and Logitech Europe S.A. (#605).

Denso's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Denso International America, Inc. moved from 324 to 140 grants (0.43x 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 #2,825. See the growth leaderboard.

Shanghai Tianma M…

743
Nuance Communicat…

740
Zoll Medical

740
Lexmark Internati…

737
Husqvarna AB

736
Denso Internation… ◀

736
Seminis Vegetable…

735
Toyota Research I…

735
Logitech Europe

731

What this shows Denso holds 736 patents at rank #601, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Denso

By rank, the assignees closest to #601 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60H (Arrangements OF Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Denso, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60H (Arrangements OF Heating), Denso ranks #9 of 379 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Institute OF Microelectronics OF THE Chinese Academy OF Sciences 60 Saint-gobain Centre DE Recherches ET D'etudes Europeen 60 Universiteit Gent 60 Anritsu Company 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Linde GmbH 16.1 avg Basf SE 16.1 avg Applied Biosystems, LLC 16.1 avg Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. 16.1 avg

Denso's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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.

View data table

Denso International America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	44	6.0%
2016	39	5.3%
2017	66	9.0%
2018	99	13.5%
2019	105	14.3%
2020	124	16.8%
2021	95	12.9%
2022	78	10.6%
2023	40	5.4%
2024	22	3.0%
2025partial year	24	3.3%

Which technologies does Denso International America, Inc. patent most?

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 135

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 132

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 105

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 86

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 82

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 82

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 75

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 73

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 66

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 60

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 58

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 56

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 49

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 47

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 44

Top 15 of 160 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Denso International America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Denso International America, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60H (Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles), 18.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60H
Ranked #601 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Denso International America, Inc. against Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.4/100 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

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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

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