Where does Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. ranks #1,963 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 Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. hold?

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. holds 205 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 79 technology areas.

What is Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 72.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. focus on?

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 48 patents, ranking #92 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 79 CPC subclasses total.

Is Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.'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 Panasonic Automotive Systems 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

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 205 granted patents across 79 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Panasonic ranks #1,963 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 205 patents across 79 technology areas.

#1,963
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (72.0/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1963 · Foreign Corporation #1,963 · 205 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 205 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,963/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Airbnb
CPC-WIDE B60R · 79 areas
INNOV-STRONG 72.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Airbnb, 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 Panasonic’s 72.0 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 18.4 pts (26%) Velocity 20.0 pts (28%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bytedance · near

72
Infineon · near

72
Western Digital · near

72
Panasonic Automotive… · this assignee

72
Hewlett-packard… · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Panasonic's Innovation Score is 72.0/100 (top 1% 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 Panasonic?

Each dot is one of Panasonic’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). Panasonic’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 15.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Panasonic's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2024–2025. Lead class B60R accounts for 23.4% of the portfolio across 79 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Asml Holding N.V. (#1,959) and HeartWare, Inc. (#1,967).

Panasonic's three-year grant acceleration

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. shows 89 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Asml Holding

205
Airbnb

205
Beijing Voyager T…

205
Heraeus Deutschla…

205
Panasonic Automot… ◀

205
Crocs

204
Entropic Communic…

204
Essilor Internati…

204
Heartware

204

What this shows Panasonic holds 205 patents at rank #1,963, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Panasonic

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,963 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Panasonic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Panasonic ranks #92 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

Bytedance Inc. 72 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 72 Infineon Technologies AG 72 Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Triple WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) Co. Ltd. 14.2 avg Nestec S.A. 14.2 avg ASC Engineered Solutions, LLC 14.2 avg Atlantic Inertial Systems Limited 14.2 avg

Panasonic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	89	43.4%
2025partial year	116	56.6%

Which technologies does Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 48

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 44

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 41

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

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 32

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 31

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 28

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 28

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 25

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 19

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 13

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 12

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 12

Top 15 of 79 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

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

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 23.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #1,963 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. against Asml Holding N.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 72.0/100 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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