Where does Mazda Motor Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mazda Motor Corporation ranks #209 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 Mazda Motor Corporation hold?

Mazda Motor Corporation holds 1,922 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 200 technology areas.

What is Mazda Motor Corporation's Innovation Score?

Mazda Motor Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mazda Motor Corporation focus on?

Mazda Motor Corporation's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 580 patents, ranking #21 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 200 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mazda Motor Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mazda Motor Corporation's recent grant velocity is +57% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mazda Motor Corporation's patents?

Mazda Motor Corporation's patents average 10.1 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 Mazda Motor 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

Mazda Motor Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,922 granted patents across 200 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mazda ranks #209 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,922 patents across 200 technology areas.

#209
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.3/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: +57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R209 · Foreign Corporation #209 · 1,922 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.9K grants
TOP-DECILE #209/49,997
NEAR-PEER Sonos
CPC-BROAD Y02T · 200 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sonos, Inc. (±11 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 Mazda’s 62.3 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 26.1 pts (42%) Velocity 5.1 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Harman International… · near

62
Trustees of Tufts… · near

62
BAE Systems · near

62
Mazda Motor · this assignee

62
STMicroelectronics… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mazda's Innovation Score is 62.3/100 (top 2% 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 Mazda?

Each dot is one of Mazda’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). Mazda’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Mazda's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Mazda Motor Corporation received 1,101 grants versus 703 in 2015–2019 (+57% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 267 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 83. Lead class Y02T accounts for 30.2% of the portfolio across 200 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lam Research Corporation (#205) and L'Oreal (#213).

Mazda's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mazda Motor Corporation moved from 747 to 568 grants (0.76x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,959. See the growth leaderboard.

Lam Research

1,965
Magic Leap

1,959
Facebook

1,950
Casio Computer

1,949
Mazda Motor ◀

1,922
Sonos

1,911
Waymo

1,901
Bridgestone

1,895
L'oreal

1,890

What this shows Mazda holds 1,922 patents at rank #209, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mazda

By rank, the assignees closest to #209 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mazda, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Mazda ranks #21 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

BAE Systems PLC 62 STMicroelectronics France 62 Harman International Industries, Incorporated 62 Trustees of Tufts College 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.1 here).

Taiwan Textile Research Institute 10.1 avg Hiroshima University 10.1 avg Keiwa Incorporated 10.1 avg Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. 10.1 avg

Mazda's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Mazda Motor Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	83	4.3%
2016	108	5.6%
2017	124	6.5%
2018	174	9.1%
2019	214	11.1%
2020	267	13.9%
2021	266	13.8%
2022	250	13.0%
2023	186	9.7%
2024	132	6.9%
2025partial year	118	6.1%

Which technologies does Mazda Motor Corporation patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 580

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 469

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 402

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 317

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 297

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 248

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 239

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 192

F16H - Gearing 131

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 128

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 111

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 97

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 92

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 81

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 72

Top 15 of 200 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

Mazda Motor Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mazda Motor Corporation's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 30.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #209 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mazda Motor Corporation against Lam Research Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.3/100 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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