Where does Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki ranks #435 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 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki hold?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki holds 1,041 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 191 technology areas.

What is Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's Innovation Score?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki has an Innovation Score of 58.6 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%).

Is Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's patents?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's patents average 7.3 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 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki 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

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Q: What technology areas does Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki focus on?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 284 patents, ranking #50 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 191 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,041 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kabushiki ranks #435 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,041 patents across 191 technology areas.

#435
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.6/100): 7.3
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R435 · Foreign Corporation #435 · 1,041 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #435/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mitsubishi Chemical
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 191 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (±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.

How Kabushiki’s 58.6 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 24.0 pts (41%) Velocity 5.2 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 4.4 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brelyon · near

59
Champion Link… · near

59
Loewenstein Medical… · near

59
SMA Solar Technology · near

59
Toyota Jidoshokki · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kabushiki's Innovation Score is 58.6/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Kabushiki?

Each dot is one of Kabushiki’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). Kabushiki’s own 7.3 claims/patent is at or below the 19.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Kabushiki's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki received 384 grants versus 594 in 2015–2019 (-35% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 153 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 63. Lead class Y02E accounts for 27.3% of the portfolio across 191 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Duke University (#431) and Align Technology, Inc. (#439).

Kabushiki's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki moved from 275 to 216 grants (0.79x 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 #1,887. See the growth leaderboard.

Duke University

1,050
University of Pit…

1,050
Largan Precision

1,046
Avaya

1,044
Toyota Jidoshokki ◀

1,041
Mitsubishi Chemic…

1,040
Genentech

1,039
Seoul National Un…

1,030
Align Technology

1,029

What this shows Kabushiki holds 1,041 patents at rank #435, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kabushiki

By rank, the assignees closest to #435 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kabushiki, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Kabushiki ranks #50 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

SMA Solar Technology AG 59 Loewenstein Medical Technology S.A. 59 Champion Link International Corporation 59 Brelyon Inc 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.3 here).

Reebok International Limited 7.3 avg Jaguar Land Rover Limited 7.3 avg Dometic Sweden AB 7.3 avg B1 Institute OF Image Technology, Inc. 7.3 avg

Kabushiki'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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Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	101	9.7%
2016	110	10.6%
2017	153	14.7%
2018	123	11.8%
2019	107	10.3%
2020	95	9.1%
2021	73	7.0%
2022	87	8.4%
2023	66	6.3%
2024	63	6.1%
2025partial year	63	6.1%

Which technologies does Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 284

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 240

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 166

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 143

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 140

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 100

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 95

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 85

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 74

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 72

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 51

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 49

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 43

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 42

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 41

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

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 27.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #435 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki against Duke University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.6/100 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

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