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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magna Powertrain of America, Inc. ranks #7,298 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 of America, Inc. hold?

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc. holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

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

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.4 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -9% 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 of America, Inc.'s patents?

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc.'s patents average 17.9 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 Powertrain of America, 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 US Corporation

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Magna Powertrain of America, Inc. focus on?

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc.'s top technology area is 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 ) with 34 patents, ranking #114 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 18 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Magna ranks #7,298 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 18 technology areas.

#7,298
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.4/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7298 · US Corporation #7,298 · 45 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,298/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lunar Energy
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lunar Energy, 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 Magna’s 41.4 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 13.2 pts (32%) Velocity 2.5 pts (6%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abbott Molecular · near

41
Magna Powertrain of… · this assignee

41
Secure-ic SAS · near

41
Olympus Scientific… · near

41
Ooma · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Magna's Innovation Score is 41.4/100 (top 33% 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 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 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 of America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 75.6% of grants classified under 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 Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Magna sits between Lunar Energy, Inc. and Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd..

Magna's three-year grant acceleration

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc. shows 7 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.

Lunar Energy

45
Medimop Medical P…

45
Movea

45
MY JOB Matcher

45
Mallinckrodt Phar…

45
Mapquest

45
Mexichem Amanco H…

45
Microvast Power S…

45
Magna Powertrain… ◀

45

What this shows Magna holds 45 patents at rank #7,298, 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 #7,298 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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 B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Magna ranks #114 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Secure-ic SAS 41 Abbott Molecular Inc. 41 Ooma, Inc. 41 Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. 41

Magna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 of America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	11.1%
2016	4	8.9%
2017	6	13.3%
2018	3	6.7%
2019	5	11.1%
2020	8	17.8%
2021	6	13.3%
2022	3	6.7%
2023	2	4.4%
2024	2	4.4%
2025partial year	1	2.2%

Which technologies does Magna Powertrain of America, Inc. patent most?

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 34

F16H - Gearing 28

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 19

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

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 1

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1

Top 15 of 18 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 of America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magna Powertrain of America, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 75.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #7,298 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magna Powertrain of America, Inc. against Lunar Energy, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.4/100 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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