Where does Hitachi Astemo France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hitachi Astemo France ranks #40,709 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 Hitachi Astemo France hold?

Hitachi Astemo France holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2025 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Hitachi Astemo France's Innovation Score?

Hitachi Astemo France has an Innovation Score of 21.4 out of 100 (8th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hitachi Astemo France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Hitachi Astemo France.

What does claim depth mean for Hitachi Astemo France's patents?

Hitachi Astemo France's patents average 14.2 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 Hitachi Astemo France 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

Hitachi Astemo France

Q: What technology areas does Hitachi Astemo France focus on?

Hitachi Astemo France's top technology area 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 Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Astemo France · this assignee

21
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

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..

Highlight Tech

6
Hillsdale Furnitu…

6
HIQ Solar

6
Histocell S L

6
Hitachi Astemo Ue…

6
Hitachi High-tech…

6
Hitachi High-tech…

6
Hiya

6
Hitachi Astemo Fr… ◀

6

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.

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

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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?

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 Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 4

F16H - Gearing 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#40,709

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

21.4 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

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

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

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.