Where does Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC ranks #4,007 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 Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC hold?

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC holds 90 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's Innovation Score?

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's recent grant velocity is +39% 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 Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's patents?

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's patents average 12.7 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 Federal-mogul Motorparts 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

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC

Q: What technology areas does Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC focus on?

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's top technology area is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings) with 47 patents, ranking #29 of 1,334 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 90 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Federal-mogul ranks #4,007 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 90 patents across 20 technology areas.

#4,007
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4007 · US Corporation #4,007 · 90 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 90 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,007/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dicastal North America
CPC-FOCUS F16C · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dicastal North America, 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 Federal-mogul’s 44.5 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 15.6 pts (35%) Velocity 5.5 pts (12%) Breadth 15.8 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Concaten · near

45
Dart Industries · near

45
Mitsubishi Electric US · near

45
Apothecary Products · near

45
Federal-mogul… · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Federal-mogul's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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 Federal-mogul?

Each dot is one of Federal-mogul’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). Federal-mogul’s own 12.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Federal-mogul's grants concentrate

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 52.2% of grants classified under F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (16 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Federal-mogul sits between Dicastal North America, Inc. and Lixil Corporation.

Federal-mogul's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC moved from 34 to 28 grants (0.82x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Dicastal North Am…

90
Duraflex Hong Kong

90
Ecole Superieure…

90
Egis Technology

90
Hodogaya Chemical

90
Kobayashi Pharmac…

90
Liebherr-werk Ehi…

90
Lixil

90
Federal-mogul Mot… ◀

90

What this shows Federal-mogul holds 90 patents at rank #4,007, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Federal-mogul

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,007 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16C (Shafts)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Federal-mogul's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Federal-mogul, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16C (Shafts), Federal-mogul ranks #29 of 1,334 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Apothecary Products, LLC 45 Dart Industries Inc. 45 Concaten, Inc. 45 Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Sitronix Technology Corp. 12.7 avg General Interface Solution Limited 12.7 avg Aetna Inc. 12.7 avg Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. 12.7 avg

Federal-mogul's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	3.3%
2017	16	17.8%
2018	5	5.6%
2019	12	13.3%
2020	10	11.1%
2021	12	13.3%
2022	10	11.1%
2023	8	8.9%
2024	10	11.1%
2025partial year	4	4.4%

Which technologies does Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC patent most?

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 47

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 26

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 21

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 13

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 9

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 7

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 5

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 2

F16H - Gearing 2

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC's lead technology class is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings), 52.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16C
Ranked #4,007 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC against Dicastal North America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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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