Where does Nabtesco Automotive Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nabtesco Automotive Corporation ranks #7,594 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 Nabtesco Automotive Corporation hold?

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation has an Innovation Score of 35.6 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 Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's recent grant velocity is -74% 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 Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's patents?

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's patents average 9.4 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 Nabtesco Automotive 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

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Nabtesco Automotive Corporation focus on?

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 31 patents, ranking #40 of 539 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: 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 MO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nabtesco ranks #7,594 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 23 technology areas.

#7,594
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.6/100): 9.4
avg claims per patent: -74%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7594 · Foreign Corporation #7,594 · 43 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,594/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Medical Research…
CPC-FOCUS B60T · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -74% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Medical Research Council (±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 Nabtesco’s 35.6 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 13.1 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 17.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bend Reserch · near

36
Wowza Media Systems · near

36
Nabtesco Automotive · this assignee

36
Trivver · near

36
Vive Health · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nabtesco's Innovation Score is 35.6/100 (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 Nabtesco?

Each dot is one of Nabtesco’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). Nabtesco’s own 9.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nabtesco's grants concentrate

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 72.1% of grants classified under 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 MO). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Nabtesco sits between Medical Research Council and Nokia Siemens Networks Oy.

Medical Research…

43
Medtronic Ireland…

43
Mimosa Networks

43
Myscript

43
National Universi…

43
Neurometrix

43
Nok Nok Labs

43
Nokia Siemens Net…

43
Nabtesco Automoti… ◀

43

What this shows Nabtesco holds 43 patents at rank #7,594, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nabtesco

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,594 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nabtesco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof), Nabtesco ranks #40 of 539 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Vive Health LLC 36 Trivver, Inc. 36 Bend Reserch, Inc. 36 Wowza Media Systems, LLC 36

Nabtesco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 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 · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nabtesco Automotive Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.0%
2016	4	9.3%
2017	11	25.6%
2018	9	20.9%
2019	7	16.3%
2020	8	18.6%
2021	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Nabtesco Automotive Corporation patent most?

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 31

B01D - Separation 30

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 15

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 11

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 8

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 8

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 7

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 5

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 5

F05C - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Materials, Material Properties OR Material Characteristics FOR Machines, Engines OR Pumps Other Than Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines 3

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 3

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 2

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 2

B03C - Magnetic OR Electrostatic Separation OF Solid Materials From Solid Materials OR FLUIDS; Separation BY High-voltage Electric Fields 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Top 15 of 23 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

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nabtesco Automotive Corporation's lead technology class is 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 MO), 72.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60T
Ranked #7,594 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nabtesco Automotive Corporation against Medical Research Council, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.6/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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