Where does FEV North America Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FEV North America Incorporated ranks #28,750 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 FEV North America Incorporated hold?

FEV North America Incorporated holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is FEV North America Incorporated's Innovation Score?

FEV North America Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 30.3 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is FEV North America Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FEV North America Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 FEV North America Incorporated's patents?

FEV North America Incorporated's patents average 12.1 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 FEV North America Incorporated 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

FEV North America Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does FEV North America Incorporated focus on?

FEV North America Incorporated's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, FEV ranks #28,750 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 9 technology areas.

#28,750
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.3/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28750 · US Corporation #28,750 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,750/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FCA Fiat Chrysler…
CPC-NARROW Y02T · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FCA Fiat Chrysler Automoveis Brasil Ltda (±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
FEV North America… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows FEV's Innovation Score is 30.3/100 (34th 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 FEV's grants concentrate

FEV North America Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, FEV sits between FCA Fiat Chrysler Automoveis Brasil Ltda and Field Upgrading Limited.

FEV's three-year grant acceleration

FEV North America Incorporated shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

FCA Fiat Chrysler…

9
Fedora Pharmaceut…

9
Felsomat & KG

9
Ferrotec (USA)

9
Fiberbuilt Manufa…

9
Fibracast

9
Fico Transpar

9
Field Upgrading

9
FEV North America… ◀

9

What this shows FEV holds 9 patents at rank #28,731, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FEV

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,731 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

FEV's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

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

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FEV North America Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	22.2%
2018	2	22.2%
2019	3	33.3%
2022	1	11.1%
2023	1	11.1%

Which technologies does FEV North America Incorporated patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 4

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 3

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

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 1

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 1

B01D - Separation 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#28,750

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.3 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

FEV North America Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FEV North America Incorporated's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #28,750 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FEV North America Incorporated against FCA Fiat Chrysler Automoveis Brasil Ltda, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.3/100 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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