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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magna Seating Inc. ranks #4,093 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 Seating Inc. hold?

Magna Seating Inc. holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Magna Seating Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Magna Seating Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% 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 Seating Inc. focus on?

Magna Seating Inc.'s top technology area is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 84 patents, ranking #21 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

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

Magna Seating Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Magna Seating Inc.'s patents average 15.4 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 Magna Seating 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 Seating Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 32 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: B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Magna ranks #4,093 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 32 technology areas.

#4,093
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4093 · Foreign Corporation #4,093 · 88 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,093/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kapsch TrafficCom
CPC-FOCUS B60N · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kapsch TrafficCom AG (±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 56.3 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 15.5 pts (28%) Velocity 11.6 pts (21%) Breadth 20.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cornami · near

56
Magna Seating · this assignee

56
Phillips 66 · near

56
Amyris · near

56
The University of… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Magna's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 15.4 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Magna's grants concentrate

Magna Seating Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 95.5% of grants classified under B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Magna sits between Kenall Manufacturing Company and PureCircle Sdn Bhd.

Magna's three-year grant acceleration

Magna Seating Inc. shows 33 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.

Kenall Manufactur…

88
Kapsch Trafficcom

88
Liko Research & D…

88
Luminex

88
Nissin Kogyo

88
Netscout Systems

88
O2micro

88
Purecircle Sdn Bhd

88
Magna Seating ◀

88

What this shows Magna holds 88 patents at rank #4,093, 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 #4,093 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR 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 B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles), Magna ranks #21 of 645 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Phillips 66 Company 56 Cornami, Inc. 56 Amyris, Inc. 56 The University of Birmingham 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Surmodics, Inc. 15.4 avg Veltek Associates, Inc. 15.4 avg Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden (H.O.D.N. LUMC) GMBH 15.4 avg Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC 15.4 avg

Magna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 Seating Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	10.2%
2016	10	11.4%
2017	2	2.3%
2018	7	8.0%
2019	7	8.0%
2020	8	9.1%
2021	4	4.5%
2022	7	8.0%
2023	10	11.4%
2024	16	18.2%
2025partial year	8	9.1%

Which technologies does Magna Seating Inc. patent most?

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 84

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 6

F16H - Gearing 6

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

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 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 1

Top 15 of 32 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 Seating Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magna Seating Inc.'s lead technology class is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 95.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60N
Ranked #4,093 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magna Seating Inc. against Kenall Manufacturing Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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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