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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magna International Inc. ranks #1,746 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 International Inc. hold?

Magna International Inc. holds 233 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 108 technology areas.

What is Magna International Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Magna International Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.2 out of 100 (top 5% 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 International Inc. focus on?

Magna International Inc.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 45 patents, ranking #98 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 108 CPC subclasses total.

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

Magna International Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Magna International Inc.'s patents?

Magna International Inc.'s patents average 15.9 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 International 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 International Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 233 granted patents across 108 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Magna ranks #1,746 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 233 patents across 108 technology areas.

#1,746
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.2/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1746 · Foreign Corporation #1,746 · 233 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 233 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,746/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alstom Transport
CPC-WIDE B60R · 108 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alstom Transport Technologies (±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 58.2 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 18.8 pts (32%) Velocity 4.8 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DDP Specialty… · near

58
MONDAY COM · near

58
DH Development PTE · near

58
Magna International · this assignee

58
McLaren Automotive · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Magna's Innovation Score is 58.2/100 (top 5% 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 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 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 International Inc. received 95 grants versus 125 in 2015–2019 (-24% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 10. Lead class B60R accounts for 19.3% of the portfolio across 108 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Alstom Transport Technologies (#1,742) and ENI S.P.A. (#1,750).

Magna's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Magna International Inc. moved from 70 to 50 grants (0.71x 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 #2,104. See the growth leaderboard.

Alstom Transport

233
Aptar France SAS

233
Beihang University

233
Evoqua Water

233
Sidel Participati…

233
United States Gyp…

233
Magna Internation… ◀

233
Covestro

232
ENI S P A

232

What this shows Magna holds 233 patents at rank #1,746, 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 #1,746 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (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 B60R (Vehicles), Magna ranks #98 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

DH Technologies Development PTE. Ltd. 58 McLaren Automotive Limited 58 MONDAY.COM Ltd. 58 DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US, LLC. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 15.9 avg Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC 15.9 avg DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH 15.9 avg Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. 15.9 avg

Magna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Magna International Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	15.0%
2016	19	8.2%
2017	25	10.7%
2018	21	9.0%
2019	25	10.7%
2020	24	10.3%
2021	21	9.0%
2022	11	4.7%
2023	10	4.3%
2024	29	12.4%
2025partial year	13	5.6%

Which technologies does Magna International Inc. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 45

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 44

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 38

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 34

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 34

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 27

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 21

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 21

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 20

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 20

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 17

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 17

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 14

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 14

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 14

Top 15 of 108 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 International Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magna International Inc.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 19.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #1,746 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magna International Inc. against Alstom Transport Technologies, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.2/100 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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