Where does Magna Exteriors Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magna Exteriors Inc. ranks #2,331 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 Magna Exteriors Inc. hold?

Magna Exteriors Inc. holds 168 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 67 technology areas.

What is Magna Exteriors Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Magna Exteriors Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.1 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Magna Exteriors Inc. focus on?

Magna Exteriors Inc.'s top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 76 patents, ranking #49 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 67 CPC subclasses total.

Is Magna Exteriors Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Magna Exteriors Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +234% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Magna Exteriors Inc.'s patents?

Magna Exteriors Inc.'s patents average 17.5 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 Magna Exteriors Inc. 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

Magna Exteriors Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 168 granted patents across 67 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Magna ranks #2,331 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 168 patents across 67 technology areas.

#2,331
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.1/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +234%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2331 · Foreign Corporation #2,331 · 168 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 168 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,331/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH General Electric…
CPC-WIDE B62D · 67 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +234% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L. (±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 Magna’s 63.1 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 17.7 pts (28%) Velocity 9.9 pts (16%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aristocrat Australia… · near

63
Life · near

63
Magna Exteriors · this assignee

63
AI Incorporated · near

63
Preferred Networks · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Magna's Innovation Score is 63.1/100 (top 2% 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 Magna?

Each dot is one of Magna’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). Magna’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Magna's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Magna Exteriors Inc. received 107 grants versus 32 in 2015–2019 (+234% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 1. Lead class B62D accounts for 45.2% of the portfolio across 67 subclasses. Volume neighbours: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L. (#2,327) and Research Foundation OF THE City University OF NEW York (#2,335).

Magna's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Magna Exteriors Inc. moved from 49 to 73 grants (1.49x 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 #457. See the growth leaderboard.

General Electric…

168
Ingersoll-rand In…

168
Intellectual Vent…

168
Korea Research In…

168
NLT

168
Netronome Systems

168
Oerlikon Surface…

168
Research Foundati…

168
Magna Exteriors ◀

168

What this shows Magna holds 168 patents at rank #2,331, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Magna

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,331 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Magna, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B62D (Motor Vehicles), Magna ranks #49 of 1,368 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Life Technologies Corporation 63 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited 63 AI Incorporated 63 Preferred Networks, Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

Colorado State University Research Foundation 17.5 avg Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH 17.5 avg R.P. Scherer Technologies, LLC 17.5 avg Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP 17.5 avg

Magna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Magna Exteriors Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.6%
2017	6	3.6%
2018	10	6.0%
2019	15	8.9%
2020	11	6.5%
2021	23	13.7%
2022	21	12.5%
2023	26	15.5%
2024	26	15.5%
2025partial year	29	17.3%

Which technologies does Magna Exteriors Inc. patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 76

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 68

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 49

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 40

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 39

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 30

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 26

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 22

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 21

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 12

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 12

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 9

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 7

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 6

Top 15 of 67 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

Magna Exteriors Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magna Exteriors Inc.'s lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 45.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #2,331 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magna Exteriors Inc. against General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.1/100 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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