Where does Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. ranks #3,263 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 Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. hold?

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. holds 115 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.3 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 Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. 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

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. focus on?

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 23 patents. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 115 granted patents across 57 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Omron ranks #3,263 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 115 patents across 57 technology areas.

#3,263
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 8.3
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3263 · Foreign Corporation #3,263 · 115 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 115 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,263/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Minka Lighting
CPC-WIDE B60R · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Minka Lighting, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bnnt · near

47
Dentsply International · near

47
Omron Automotive · this assignee

47
Sunshine Lake Pharma · near

47
UV Partners · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Omron's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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.

How Omron's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. received 9 grants versus 106 in 2015–2019 (-92% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 2. Lead class B60R accounts for 20% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Minka Lighting, Inc. (#3,259) and Singular Genomics Systems, Inc. (#3,267).

Omron's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. moved from 20 to 2 grants (0.10x 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 #3,175. See the growth leaderboard.

Minka Lighting

115
Mitsubishi Heavy…

115
National Taiwan N…

115
Novomatic

115
Pi-design

115
Shofu

115
Simpson Strong-tie

115
Singular Genomics…

115
Omron Automotive ◀

115

What this shows Omron holds 115 patents at rank #3,263, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Omron

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,263 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Omron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Sunshine Lake Pharma Co., Ltd. 47 Dentsply International Inc. 47 Bnnt, LLC 47 UV Partners, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.3 here).

Calsonic Kansei Corporation 8.3 avg Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd. 8.3 avg Sanoh Industrial Co. , Ltd. 8.3 avg Asia Vital Components (CHINA) Co., Ltd. 8.3 avg

Omron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	18.3%
2016	30	26.1%
2017	24	20.9%
2018	18	15.7%
2019	13	11.3%
2020	5	4.3%
2021	2	1.7%
2022	2	1.7%

Which technologies does Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 18

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 16

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 15

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 15

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 13

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 10

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 8

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 7

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 7

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,263

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #3,263 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. against Minka Lighting, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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

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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