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Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America

Q: Where does Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America ranks #2,230 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America 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 PatentsView assignee record - 176 granted patents across 75 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Panasonic ranks #2,230 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 176 patents across 75 technology areas.

#2,230
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.3/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2230 · US Corporation #2,230 · 176 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 176 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,230/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Institute OF…
CPC-WIDE B60K · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Institute OF Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan (±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 59.3 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 17.9 pts (30%) Velocity 5.8 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
iControl Networks · near

59
Koito Manufacturing · near

59
Panasonic Automotive… · this assignee

59
Sage Electrochromics · near

59
Koki Holdings · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Panasonic's Innovation Score is 59.3/100 (top 4% 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 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Panasonic's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America received 70 grants versus 95 in 2015–2019 (-26% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 28 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 10. Lead class B60K accounts for 29% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Wabco GmbH (#2,226) and Thermos L.L.C. (#2,234).

Panasonic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America moved from 51 to 44 grants (0.86x 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 #1,617. See the growth leaderboard.

Wabco

177
Institute OF Nucl…

176
Lisa Draexlmaier

176
Nokia of America

176
Roland DG

176
Rapiscan Systems

176
Toshiba Materials

176
Thermos L L C

176
Panasonic Automot… ◀

176

What this shows Panasonic holds 176 patents at rank #2,230, 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 #2,230 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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 B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Panasonic ranks #85 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

iControl Networks, Inc. 59 Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 59 Sage Electrochromics, Inc. 59 Koki Holdings Co., Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Bard Access Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. 17.7 avg Zynga Inc. 17.7 avg The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology 17.7 avg

Panasonic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	9.1%
2016	11	6.3%
2017	28	15.9%
2018	15	8.5%
2019	25	14.2%
2020	10	5.7%
2021	16	9.1%
2022	12	6.8%
2023	16	9.1%
2024	16	9.1%
2025partial year	11	6.3%

Which technologies does Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America patent most?

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 51

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 36

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 33

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 32

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 22

H04H - Broadcast Communication 21

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 19

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 17

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 17

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 17

H04B - Transmission 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 11

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

Top 15 of 75 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 Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America's lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 29% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #2,230 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America against Wabco GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.3/100 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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