Where does Jtekt Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Jtekt Corporation ranks #298 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 Jtekt Corporation hold?

Jtekt Corporation holds 1,431 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 163 technology areas.

What is Jtekt Corporation's Innovation Score?

Jtekt Corporation has an Innovation Score of 58.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Jtekt Corporation focus on?

Jtekt Corporation's top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 580 patents. Grants appear in 163 CPC subclasses total.

Is Jtekt Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Jtekt Corporation's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Jtekt Corporation's patents?

Jtekt Corporation's patents average 7.0 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 Jtekt 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

Jtekt Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,431 granted patents across 163 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Jtekt ranks #298 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,431 patents across 163 technology areas.

#298
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.5/100): 7.0
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R298 · Foreign Corporation #298 · 1,431 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #298/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced New
CPC-WIDE B62D · 163 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd. (±1 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
Nutanix · near

59
Zeon · near

59
Hainan University · near

59
Jtekt · this assignee

59
Tempus Labs · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Jtekt's Innovation Score is 58.5/100 (top 4% 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.

How Jtekt's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Jtekt Corporation received 519 grants versus 860 in 2015–2019 (-40% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 184 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 60. Lead class B62D accounts for 40.5% of the portfolio across 163 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (#294) and Motorola Mobility LLC (#302).

Jtekt's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Jtekt Corporation moved from 431 to 270 grants (0.63x 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 #2,374. See the growth leaderboard.

Toshiba Devices &…

1,454
Vivo Mobile Commu…

1,451
JFE Steel

1,443
Freeescale Semico…

1,437
Jtekt ◀

1,431
Advanced New

1,430
Adobe Systems Inc…

1,429
Tata Consultancy…

1,429
Motorola Mobility

1,427

What this shows Jtekt holds 1,431 patents at rank #298, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Jtekt

By rank, the assignees closest to #298 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Jtekt, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Tempus Labs, Inc. 59 Hainan University 59 Zeon Corporation 59 Nutanix, Inc. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.0 here).

Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd. 7.0 avg Ulvac, Inc. 7.0 avg Woodpeckers, LLC 7.1 avg Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited 7.1 avg

Jtekt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Jtekt Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	184	12.9%
2016	157	11.0%
2017	157	11.0%
2018	180	12.6%
2019	182	12.7%
2020	139	9.7%
2021	110	7.7%
2022	123	8.6%
2023	87	6.1%
2024	60	4.2%
2025partial year	52	3.6%

Which technologies does Jtekt Corporation patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 580

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 276

F16H - Gearing 186

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 169

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 92

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 77

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 76

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 63

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 56

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 55

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 53

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 47

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 39

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 33

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 31

Top 15 of 163 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#298

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.5 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

Jtekt Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Jtekt Corporation's lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 40.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #298 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Jtekt Corporation against Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.5/100 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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