Where does Koyo Bearings North America LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Koyo Bearings North America LLC ranks #10,376 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 Koyo Bearings North America LLC hold?

Koyo Bearings North America LLC holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Koyo Bearings North America LLC's Innovation Score?

Koyo Bearings North America LLC has an Innovation Score of 34.8 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Koyo Bearings North America LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Koyo Bearings North America LLC'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 Koyo Bearings North America LLC's patents?

Koyo Bearings North America LLC's patents average 14.4 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 Koyo Bearings North America LLC 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 US Corporation

Koyo Bearings North America LLC

Q: What technology areas does Koyo Bearings North America LLC focus on?

Koyo Bearings North America LLC's top technology area is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings) with 19 patents, ranking #70 of 1,334 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Koyo ranks #10,376 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 12 technology areas.

#10,376
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.8/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10376 · US Corporation #10,376 · 30 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,376/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kao USA
CPC-FOCUS F16C · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kao USA 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 Koyo’s 34.8 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 11.9 pts (34%) Velocity 2.1 pts (6%) Breadth 12.2 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hamilton Associates · near

35
Kotobuki & · near

35
Koyo Bearings North… · this assignee

35
Mani · near

35
Robert Bosch… · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Koyo's Innovation Score is 34.8/100 (49th 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 Koyo?

Each dot is one of Koyo’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). Koyo’s own 14.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Koyo's grants concentrate

Koyo Bearings North America LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 63.3% of grants classified under F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Koyo sits between Kao USA Inc. and Leaf Healthcare, Inc..

Koyo's three-year grant acceleration

Koyo Bearings North America LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Kao USA

30
Keystone Tower Sy…

30
Kohler (China) In…

30
Kolcraft Enterpri…

30
Kwik Tek

30
Lasermax

30
LBP Manufacturing

30
Leaf Healthcare

30
Koyo Bearings Nor… ◀

30

What this shows Koyo holds 30 patents at rank #10,377, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Koyo

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,377 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16C (Shafts)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Koyo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16C (Shafts), Koyo ranks #70 of 1,334 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Mani, Inc. 35 Hamilton Associates, Inc. 35 Kotobuki & Co., Ltd. 35 Robert Bosch Battery Systems GmbH 35

Koyo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Koyo Bearings North America LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.3%
2016	3	10.0%
2017	4	13.3%
2018	5	16.7%
2019	5	16.7%
2020	2	6.7%
2021	6	20.0%
2022	4	13.3%

Which technologies does Koyo Bearings North America LLC patent most?

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 19

F16H - Gearing 8

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 6

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 6

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 4

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 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 1

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 1

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Koyo Bearings North America LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Koyo Bearings North America LLC's lead technology class is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings), 63.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16C
Ranked #10,376 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Koyo Bearings North America LLC against Kao USA Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.8/100 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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