Where does Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH ranks #12,537 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 Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH hold?

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH's Innovation Score?

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH has an Innovation Score of 35.4 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH's recent grant velocity is -91% 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 Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH's patents?

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH's patents average 15.5 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 Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH 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 Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH focus on?

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH'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 19 patents, ranking #178 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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 #12,537 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 18 technology areas.

#12,537
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.4/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12537 · Foreign Corporation #12,537 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,537/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lutron Ketra
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lutron Ketra, 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 35.4 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 11.1 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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What this shows Magna's Innovation Score is 35.4/100 (top 49% 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 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 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.

Where Magna's grants concentrate

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 79.2% 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 2018 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Magna sits between Lutron Ketra, LLC and Mdsave Shared Services Inc..

Lutron Ketra

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24
M+C Schiffer

24
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24
Marel Further Pro…

24
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24
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24

What this shows Magna holds 24 patents at rank #12,538, 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 #12,538 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.

Magna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

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 Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	16.7%
2016	2	8.3%
2017	2	8.3%
2018	10	41.7%
2019	4	16.7%
2020	2	8.3%

Which technologies does Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH 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 19

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 8

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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 4

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 3

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

B01D - Separation 1

H05F - Static ELECTRICITY; Naturally-occurring Electricity 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

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What to do with this data

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH'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), 79.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #12,537 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Magna Steyr Fuel Systems GMBH against Lutron Ketra, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.4/100 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

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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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