Where does Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. ranks #18,987 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 Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. hold?

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.1 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 Oriental Motor 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

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. focus on?

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 6 patents, ranking #185 of 1,381 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT OT).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oriental ranks #18,987 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 11 technology areas.

#18,987
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18987 · Foreign Corporation #18,987 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,987/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH OCZ Storage Solutions
CPC-FOCUS G01D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: OCZ Storage Solutions 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.

How Oriental’s 32.0 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 9.6 pts (30%) Velocity 2.2 pts (7%) Breadth 11.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oriental Motor · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oriental's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 Oriental?

Each dot is one of Oriental’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). Oriental’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Oriental's grants concentrate

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT OT). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Oriental sits between OCZ Storage Solutions Inc. and Oxis Energy Limited.

Oriental's three-year grant acceleration

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

OCZ Storage Solut…

15
OE Solutions

15
Opticis

15
Orbis

15
Orihiro Engineeri…

15
Otico

15
Otsuka America Ph…

15
Oxis Energy

15
Oriental Motor ◀

15

What this shows Oriental holds 15 patents at rank #18,966, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oriental

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,966 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific Variable)

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

Oriental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	40.0%
2017	1	6.7%
2019	1	6.7%
2020	2	13.3%
2024	1	6.7%
2025partial year	4	26.7%

Which technologies does Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 5

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

F16H - Gearing 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oriental Motor Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT OT), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01D
Ranked #18,987 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. against OCZ Storage Solutions Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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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