Where does Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. ranks #1,846 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 Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. hold?

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. holds 218 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.6 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 Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s patents?

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s patents average 11.6 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 Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. 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

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. focus on?

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 106 patents, ranking #38 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 218 granted patents across 62 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Furukawa ranks #1,846 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 218 patents across 62 technology areas.

#1,846
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.6/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1846 · Foreign Corporation #1,846 · 218 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 218 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,846/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carl Zeiss Vision…
CPC-WIDE H01R · 62 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (±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 Furukawa’s 54.6 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 18.6 pts (34%) Velocity 4.0 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Furukawa Automotive… · this assignee

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Goodrich Lighting… · near

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Tata Steel Ijmuiden… · near

55
ModernaTX · near

55
PFU · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Furukawa's Innovation Score is 54.6/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Furukawa?

Each dot is one of Furukawa’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). Furukawa’s own 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Furukawa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. received 74 grants versus 134 in 2015–2019 (-45% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 32 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 9. Lead class H01R accounts for 48.6% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Regents of the University of Colorado (#1,842) and Steelseries ApS (#1,850).

Furukawa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. moved from 66 to 40 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 #2,433. See the growth leaderboard.

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Thyssenkrupp Stee…

219
Vista Outdoor Ope…

219
Carl Zeiss Vision…

218
National Chung Sh…

218
NIO USA

218
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Steelseries Aps

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Furukawa Automoti… ◀

218

What this shows Furukawa holds 218 patents at rank #1,846, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Furukawa

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,846 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Furukawa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Furukawa ranks #38 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Goodrich Lighting Systems, Inc. 55 Tata Steel Ijmuiden B.V. 55 ModernaTX, Inc. 55 PFU Limited 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.6 here).

Xencor, Inc. 11.6 avg Freni Brembo S.P.A. 11.6 avg Aisin AW Co., Ltd. 11.6 avg Johnson Controls, Inc. 11.6 avg

Furukawa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 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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Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	11.0%
2016	32	14.7%
2017	25	11.5%
2018	21	9.6%
2019	32	14.7%
2020	21	9.6%
2021	13	6.0%
2022	16	7.3%
2023	15	6.9%
2024	9	4.1%
2025partial year	10	4.6%

Which technologies does Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 106

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 67

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 52

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 36

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 36

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 35

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 34

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 33

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 27

C22C - Alloys 26

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 26

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 16

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 15

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 14

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 12

Top 15 of 62 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

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.'s lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 48.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #1,846 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. against The Regents of the University of Colorado, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.6/100 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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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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