Where does Denso Korea Automotive Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Denso Korea Automotive Corporation ranks #31,388 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 Korea Automotive Corporation hold?

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2020, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's Innovation Score?

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation has an Innovation Score of 23.9 out of 100 (13th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's recent grant velocity is -86% 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 Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's patents?

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's patents average 6.8 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 Denso Korea Automotive 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

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Denso Korea Automotive Corporation focus on?

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's top technology area is B60S (Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2020. 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: B60S (Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Denso ranks #31,388 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 12 technology areas.

#31,388
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 13th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.9/100): 6.8
avg claims per patent: -86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31388 · Foreign Corporation #31,388 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,388/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Delmar Pharmaceuticals
CPC-FOCUS B60S · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 23.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Delmar Pharmaceuticals, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Denso Korea Automotive · this assignee

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Denso's Innovation Score is 23.9/100 (13th percentile 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.

Where Denso's grants concentrate

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B60S (Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Denso sits between Delmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Diablo Technologies Inc..

Delmar Pharmaceut…

8
Delonaco

8
Deluxe Media

8
Demaray

8
Dermalog Jenetric

8
DFB Soria

8
Diablo Racing

8
Diablo

8
Denso Korea Autom… ◀

8

What this shows Denso holds 8 patents at rank #31,375, 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 #31,375 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60S (Servicing)

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

Denso's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 13th percentile higher than 13% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Denso Korea Automotive Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	25.0%
2018	3	37.5%
2019	2	25.0%
2020	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Denso Korea Automotive Corporation patent most?

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 3

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 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 2

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 1

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#31,388

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

23.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Denso Korea Automotive Corporation's lead technology class is B60S (Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60S
Ranked #31,388 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Denso Korea Automotive Corporation against Delmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 23.9/100 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

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