Where does Hundai Motor Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hundai Motor Company ranks #40,782 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 Hundai Motor Company hold?

Hundai Motor Company holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Hundai Motor Company's Innovation Score?

Hundai Motor Company has an Innovation Score of 29.2 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hundai Motor Company focus on?

Hundai Motor Company's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 3 patents, ranking #1,238 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

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

Hundai Motor Company's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Hundai Motor Company's patents?

Hundai Motor Company's patents average 12.3 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 Hundai 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 Foreign Corporation

Hundai Motor Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 11 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, Hundai ranks #40,782 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 11 technology areas.

#40,782
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.2/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40782 · Foreign Corporation #40,782 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #40,782/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Human AI Labs
CPC-FOCUS Y02T · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Human AI Labs, 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.

How Hundai’s 29.2 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 6.7 pts (23%) Velocity 3.3 pts (11%) Breadth 11.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hundai Motor · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hundai's Innovation Score is 29.2/100 (30th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Hundai?

Each dot is one of Hundai’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). Hundai’s own 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hundai's grants concentrate

Hundai Motor Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation). By volume, Hundai sits between Human AI Labs, Inc. and Husqvarna Zenoah Co., Ltd..

Hundai's three-year grant acceleration

Hundai Motor Company shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Human AI Labs

6
Human Biomed

6
Humphrey Products

6
Hunan Yuneng new…

6
Huntington Medica…

6
Hurricane Electric

6
Huru Systems

6
Husqvarna Zenoah

6
Hundai Motor ◀

6

What this shows Hundai holds 6 patents at rank #40,784, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hundai

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,784 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Hundai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% 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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Hundai Motor Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	16.7%
2018	1	16.7%
2019	1	16.7%
2021	1	16.7%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Hundai Motor Company patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

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

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

F16H - Gearing 2

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

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

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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

Hundai Motor Company's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #40,782 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hundai Motor Company against Human AI Labs, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.2/100 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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