Where does Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation ranks #24,744 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 Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation hold?

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's Innovation Score?

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation has an Innovation Score of 33.1 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation focus on?

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's top technology area is F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines) with 7 patents, ranking #152 of 518 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's recent grant velocity is +350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's patents?

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's patents average 14.2 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 Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation 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

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mahle ranks #24,744 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 12 technology areas.

#24,744
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.1/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24744 · Foreign Corporation #24,744 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,744/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LzLabs
CPC-FOCUS F02D · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LzLabs GmbH (±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 Mahle’s 33.1 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 8.6 pts (26%) Velocity 3.8 pts (11%) Breadth 12.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Mahle Electric… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mahle's Innovation Score is 33.1/100 (43rd percentile 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 Mahle?

Each dot is one of Mahle’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). Mahle’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mahle's grants concentrate

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Mahle sits between LzLabs GmbH and Markwest Energy Partners, L.P..

Mahle's three-year grant acceleration

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

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What this shows Mahle holds 11 patents at rank #24,726, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mahle

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,726 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Mahle's primary technology class.

Mahle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2019–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	4	36.4%
2022	3	27.3%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation patent most?

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 7

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 3

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

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 2

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

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation's lead technology class is F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02D
Ranked #24,744 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mahle Electric Drives Japan Corporation against LzLabs GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.1/100 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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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

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