Where does Ford Motor Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ford Motor Company ranks #746 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 Motor Company hold?

Ford Motor Company holds 612 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 162 technology areas.

What is Ford Motor Company's Innovation Score?

Ford Motor Company has an Innovation Score of 54.4 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ford Motor Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ford Motor Company's recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Motor Company's patents?

Ford Motor Company's patents average 8.1 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 Ford Motor Company 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 Motor Company

Q: What technology areas does Ford Motor Company focus on?

Ford Motor Company's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 52 patents. Grants appear in 162 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 612 granted patents across 162 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ford ranks #746 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 612 patents across 162 technology areas.

#746
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.4/100): 8.1
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R746 · US Corporation #746 · 612 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 612 grants
TOP-DECILE #746/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Allergan
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 162 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Allergan, 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
Basell Poliolefine… · near

54
Dicerna Pharmaceutic… · near

54
Ford Motor · this assignee

54
Pass & Seymour · near

54
Visteon Global · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ford's Innovation Score is 54.4/100 (top 8% 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.

How Ford's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ford Motor Company received 160 grants versus 445 in 2015–2019 (-64% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 164 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 15. Lead class Y02E accounts for 8.5% of the portfolio across 162 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Uchicago Argonne, LLC (#742) and Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. (#750).

Ford's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ford Motor Company moved from 160 to 56 grants (0.35x 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 #2,941. See the growth leaderboard.

Uchicago Argonne

616
Fresenius Medical…

615
Dexerials

614
Allergan

612
Spectrum Brands

612
Ford Motor ◀

612
Yahoo Holdings

611
Renault S

610
Roche Diabetes Ca…

610

What this shows Ford holds 612 patents at rank #746, 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 #746 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l. 54 Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. 54 Pass & Seymour, Inc. 54 Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.1 here).

Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd. 8.1 avg Central Garden & PET Company 8.1 avg Amorepacific Corporation 8.1 avg Lashify, Inc. 8.1 avg

Ford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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.

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Ford Motor Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	164	26.8%
2016	157	25.7%
2017	46	7.5%
2018	22	3.6%
2019	56	9.2%
2020	56	9.2%
2021	48	7.8%
2022	22	3.6%
2023	19	3.1%
2024	15	2.5%
2025partial year	7	1.1%

Which technologies does Ford Motor Company patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 52

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 50

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 28

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 26

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 25

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 23

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 20

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 18

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 16

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 16

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 15

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 15

Top 15 of 162 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#746

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.4 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

Ford Motor Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ford Motor Company's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 8.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #746 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ford Motor Company against Uchicago Argonne, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.4/100 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

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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