Where does Ford Global Technologies, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ford Global Technologies, LLC ranks #15 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 Ford Global Technologies, LLC hold?

Ford Global Technologies, LLC holds 18,527 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 372 technology areas.

What is Ford Global Technologies, LLC's Innovation Score?

Ford Global Technologies, LLC has an Innovation Score of 72.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ford Global Technologies, LLC focus on?

Ford Global Technologies, LLC's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 4,516 patents, ranking #2 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 372 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ford Global Technologies, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ford Global Technologies, LLC's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Ford Global Technologies, LLC's patents?

Ford Global Technologies, LLC's patents average 15.5 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 Ford Global Technologies, 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

Ford Global Technologies, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18,527 granted patents across 372 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ford ranks #15 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18,527 patents across 372 technology areas.

#15
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (72.3/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15 · US Corporation #15 · 18,527 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 19K grants
TOP-DECILE #15/49,997
CLEAR-GAP BOE Technology Group
CPC-BROAD Y02T · 372 areas
INNOV-STRONG 72.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (±264 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 Ford’s 72.3 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 33.9 pts (47%) Velocity 4.1 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Block · near

72
Innovation · near

72
The Nielsen (US) · near

72
Ford Global · this assignee

72
Aisin · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ford's Innovation Score is 72.3/100 (top 1% 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 Ford?

Each dot is one of Ford’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). Ford’s own 15.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Ford's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ford Global Technologies, LLC received 8,183 grants versus 9,594 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 2,624 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1,184. Lead class Y02T accounts for 24.4% of the portfolio across 372 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (#11) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (#19).

Ford's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ford Global Technologies, LLC moved from 6,704 to 4,103 grants (0.61x 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 #2,418. See the growth leaderboard.

Huawei

23,942
Toyota Jidosha

21,526
Sony Group

20,593
Amazon

20,125
Ford Global ◀

18,527
BOE Technology Gr…

18,263
Telefonaktiebolag…

15,598
Micron Technology

15,200
Mitsubishi Electr…

15,053

What this shows Ford holds 18,527 patents at rank #15, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ford

By rank, the assignees closest to #15 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ford, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Ford ranks #2 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC 72 Innovation, LLC 72 Aisin Corporation 72 Block, Inc. 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

Kennametal Inc. 15.5 avg Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. 15.5 avg Ablynx N.V. 15.5 avg Kantatsu Co., Ltd 15.5 avg

Ford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% 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

Ford Global Technologies, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,184	6.4%
2016	1,542	8.3%
2017	1,966	10.6%
2018	2,278	12.3%
2019	2,624	14.2%
2020	2,244	12.1%
2021	1,836	9.9%
2022	1,424	7.7%
2023	1,432	7.7%
2024	1,247	6.7%
2025partial year	750	4.0%

Which technologies does Ford Global Technologies, LLC patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4,516

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3,270

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 2,728

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 2,221

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 2,130

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1,751

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 1,723

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1,451

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1,251

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 1,028

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 959

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 948

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 868

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 800

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 775

Top 15 of 372 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

Ford Global Technologies, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ford Global Technologies, LLC's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 24.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #15 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ford Global Technologies, LLC against Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 72.3/100 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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