Where does Hyundai Wia Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hyundai Wia Corporation ranks #7,018 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 Wia Corporation hold?

Hyundai Wia Corporation holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Hyundai Wia Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hyundai Wia Corporation has an Innovation Score of 60.4 out of 100 (top 3% 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 Wia Corporation focus on?

Hyundai Wia Corporation's top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 20 patents, ranking #86 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hyundai Wia Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hyundai Wia Corporation's recent grant velocity is +67% 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 Wia Corporation's patents?

Hyundai Wia Corporation's patents average 11.7 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 Wia Corporation 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 Wia Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 32 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hyundai ranks #7,018 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 32 technology areas.

#7,018
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.4/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7018 · Foreign Corporation #7,018 · 47 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,018/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hangzhou Chic…
CPC-FOCUS F16D · 32 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Hyundai’s 60.4 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 13.4 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 20.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hyundai Wia · this assignee

60
UAB 360 IT · near

60
Faro · near

60
JSR · near

60
Electrolux Appliance… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hyundai's Innovation Score is 60.4/100 (top 3% 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 11.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hyundai's grants concentrate

Hyundai Wia Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 42.6% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Hyundai sits between Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and Intelligent Designs 2000 Corp..

Hyundai's three-year grant acceleration

Hyundai Wia Corporation shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Hangzhou Chic Int…

47
Hefei Institutes…

47
Hill-rom Services…

47
Hitachi Consumer

47
Inari Agriculture…

47
Indiana Mills & M…

47
Inside Secure

47
Intelligent Desig…

47
Hyundai Wia ◀

47

What this shows Hyundai holds 47 patents at rank #7,018, 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 #7,018 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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 F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation), Hyundai ranks #86 of 1,090 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

UAB 360 IT 60 JSR Corporation 60 Faro Technologies, Inc. 60 Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag 60

Hyundai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 Wia Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	8.5%
2016	4	8.5%
2017	5	10.6%
2018	1	2.1%
2019	1	2.1%
2020	2	4.3%
2021	2	4.3%
2022	2	4.3%
2023	8	17.0%
2024	11	23.4%
2025partial year	7	14.9%

Which technologies does Hyundai Wia Corporation patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 20

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 14

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 12

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 11

F16H - Gearing 7

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 4

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

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 4

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 3

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 3

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 3

Top 15 of 32 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 Wia Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hyundai Wia Corporation's lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 42.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #7,018 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hyundai Wia Corporation against Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.4/100 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

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