Where does Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. ranks #171 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 Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. hold?

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. holds 2,279 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 191 technology areas.

What is Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 79.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. focus on?

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 510 patents, ranking #13 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 191 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +165% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.1 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 Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. 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

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,279 granted patents across 191 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hyundai ranks #171 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,279 patents across 191 technology areas.

#171
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (79.0/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: +165%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R171 · Foreign Corporation #171 · 2,279 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #171/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NTT Docomo
CPC-WIDE B60R · 191 areas
INNOV-STRONG 79.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +165% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NTT Docomo, Inc. (±4 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 Hyundai’s 79.0 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 26.7 pts (34%) Velocity 20.0 pts (25%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Apple · near

79
Hyundai Mobis · this assignee

79
Nippon Telegraph… · near

79
Tyco Fire & Security · near

79
Micron Technology · near

79
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hyundai's Innovation Score is 79.0/100 (top 1% 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 Hyundai?

Each dot is one of Hyundai’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). Hyundai’s own 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Hyundai's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. received 1,413 grants versus 534 in 2015–2019 (+165% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 450 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 72. Lead class B60R accounts for 22.4% of the portfolio across 191 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (#167) and Becton, Dickinson and Company (#175).

Hyundai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. moved from 331 to 1,165 grants (3.52x 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 #61. See the growth leaderboard.

Volkswagen Aktien…

2,307
State Farm Mutual…

2,305
Alibaba Group Hol…

2,299
NTT Docomo

2,283
Hyundai Mobis ◀

2,279
The Board of Trus…

2,275
LG Energy Solution

2,270
Depuy Synthes Pro…

2,257
Becton Dickinson…

2,235

What this shows Hyundai holds 2,279 patents at rank #171, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hyundai

By rank, the assignees closest to #171 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hyundai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Hyundai ranks #13 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (79 here).

Apple Inc. 79 Nippon Telegraph AND Telephone Corporation 79 Tyco Fire & Security GMBH 79 Micron Technology, Inc. 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.1 here).

Roland Corporation 12.1 avg Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation 12.1 avg WCM Industries, Inc. 12.1 avg FLSmidth A/S 12.1 avg

Hyundai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

79 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	72	3.2%
2016	129	5.7%
2017	150	6.6%
2018	100	4.4%
2019	83	3.6%
2020	99	4.3%
2021	149	6.5%
2022	270	11.8%
2023	445	19.5%
2024	450	19.7%
2025partial year	332	14.6%

Which technologies does Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 510

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 243

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 240

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 234

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 220

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 211

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 205

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 179

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 177

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 114

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 109

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 104

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 102

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 91

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 88

Top 15 of 191 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

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 22.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #171 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. against Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 79.0/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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