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Hitachi Astemo France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2025–2025. 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: B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hitachi ranks #40,709 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 3 technology areas.

#40,709
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
8th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.4/100)
14.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40709 · Foreign Corporation #40,709 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
  • LOWER-Q #40,709/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Highlight Tech
  • CPC-NARROW B60T · 3 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 21.4/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2025–2025 · 1y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Highlight Tech Corp. (±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 Hitachi’s 21.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Hitachi

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Hitachi's Innovation Score is 21.4/100 (8th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Hitachi?

Each dot is one of Hitachi’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). Hitachi’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Hitachi vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 5.96.06.066.06.06.1 05101520 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Highlight Tech Corp. - 6, 19.17Highlight TechHillsdale Furniture LLC - 6, 5.33Hillsdale Furnitu…HIQ Solar, Inc. - 6, 15.33HIQ SolarHistocell, S.L. - 6, 13.33Histocell S LHitachi Astemo Ueda, Ltd. - 6, 4.5Hitachi Astemo Ue…Hitachi High-tech Analytical Science Finland OY - 6, 18.5Hitachi High-tech…Hitachi High-tech Fine Systems Corporation - 6, 9Hitachi High-tech…Hiya, Inc. - 6, 19HiyaHitachi Astemo France - 6, 14.17Hitachi Astemo Fr…
Hitachi vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Hitachi's grants concentrate

Hitachi Astemo France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO). By volume, Hitachi sits between Highlight Tech Corp. and Hiya, Inc..

Who files at Hitachi's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Hitachi holds 6 patents at rank #40,637, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Hitachi

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,637 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof)

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

Hitachi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 8th percentile higher than 8% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2025–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hitachi Astemo France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2025partial year 6 100.0%

Which technologies does Hitachi Astemo France patent most?

Top 3 of 3 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

Hitachi Astemo France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Hitachi Astemo France's lead technology class is B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60T
  • Ranked #40,709 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Hitachi Astemo France against Highlight Tech Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 21.4/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.