Where does Planar Motor Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Planar Motor Incorporated ranks #32,874 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 Planar Motor Incorporated hold?

Planar Motor Incorporated holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Planar Motor Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Planar Motor Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Planar Motor Incorporated focus on?

Planar Motor Incorporated's top technology area is H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines) with 8 patents, ranking #321 of 1,724 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Planar Motor Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Planar Motor Incorporated.

What does claim depth mean for Planar Motor Incorporated's patents?

Planar Motor Incorporated's patents average 31.8 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 Planar Motor Incorporated 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

Planar Motor Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Planar ranks #32,874 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 6 technology areas.

#32,874
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 31.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32874 · Foreign Corporation #32,874 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #32,874/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pillar
CPC-NARROW H02K · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 31.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pillar Technologies, 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 Planar’s 51.3 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 7.6 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 8.7 pts (17%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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What this shows Planar's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Planar?

Each dot is one of Planar’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). Planar’s own 31.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Planar's grants concentrate

Planar Motor Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Planar sits between Pillar Technologies, Inc. and Platypus Technologies, LLC.

Planar's three-year grant acceleration

Planar Motor Incorporated shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Planar holds 8 patents at rank #32,815, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Planar

By rank, the assignees closest to #32,815 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines)

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

Planar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Planar Motor Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	12.5%
2023	2	25.0%
2024	3	37.5%
2025partial year	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Planar Motor Incorporated patent most?

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 8

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

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

F16H - Gearing 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Planar Motor Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Planar Motor Incorporated's lead technology class is H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02K
Ranked #32,874 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Planar Motor Incorporated against Pillar Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.