Where does Magna Powertrain, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magna Powertrain, Inc. ranks #5,171 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 Powertrain, Inc. hold?

Magna Powertrain, Inc. holds 67 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Magna Powertrain, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Magna Powertrain, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% 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 Powertrain, Inc. focus on?

Magna Powertrain, Inc.'s top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 40 patents, ranking #46 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

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

Magna Powertrain, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Powertrain, Inc.'s patents?

Magna Powertrain, Inc.'s patents average 18.0 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 Magna Powertrain, 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 Powertrain, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 67 granted patents across 28 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Magna ranks #5,171 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 67 patents across 28 technology areas.

#5,171
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5171 · Foreign Corporation #5,171 · 67 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 67 grants
UPPER-Q #5,171/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lodestar Licensing…
CPC-FOCUS F16D · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (±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 46.9 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 14.6 pts (31%) Velocity 2.8 pts (6%) Breadth 18.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ECO Holding 1 · near

47
Harro Hoefliger… · near

47
Magna Powertrain · this assignee

47
Nihon Micronics · near

47
UTC Fire & Security · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Magna's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 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.

Where Magna's grants concentrate

Magna Powertrain, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 59.7% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Magna sits between Lodestar Licensing Group LLC and Oncotherapy Science, Inc..

Magna's three-year grant acceleration

Magna Powertrain, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Lodestar Licensin…

67
Lumentum Japan

67
Mabuchi Motor

67
Minerva Surgical

67
Moen Incorporated

67
NCS Multistage

67
National Universi…

67
Oncotherapy Scien…

67
Magna Powertrain ◀

67

What this shows Magna holds 67 patents at rank #5,172, 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 #5,172 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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 F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation), Magna ranks #46 of 1,090 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

ECO Holding 1 GmbH 47 Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH 47 UTC Fire & Security Corporation 47 Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Emerging Automotive, LLC 18.0 avg Copeland LP 18.0 avg Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 18.0 avg Teleflex Medical Incorporated 18.0 avg

Magna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 Powertrain, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	23.9%
2016	7	10.4%
2017	8	11.9%
2018	6	9.0%
2019	7	10.4%
2020	8	11.9%
2021	4	6.0%
2022	6	9.0%
2023	2	3.0%
2025partial year	3	4.5%

Which technologies does Magna Powertrain, Inc. patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 40

F16H - Gearing 24

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 17

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 5

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 5

B21K - Making Forged OR Pressed Metal Products, e.g. Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts OR Wheels 4

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 4

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 4

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces 3

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

Top 15 of 28 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 Powertrain, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magna Powertrain, Inc.'s lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 59.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #5,171 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magna Powertrain, Inc. against Lodestar Licensing Group LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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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