Where does Subaru Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Subaru Corporation ranks #204 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 Subaru Corporation hold?

Subaru Corporation holds 1,977 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 194 technology areas.

What is Subaru Corporation's Innovation Score?

Subaru Corporation has an Innovation Score of 68.2 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%).

Is Subaru Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Subaru Corporation's recent grant velocity is +245% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Subaru Corporation's patents?

Subaru Corporation's patents average 10.5 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 Subaru Corporation 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

Subaru Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Subaru Corporation focus on?

Subaru Corporation's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 458 patents. Grants appear in 194 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,977 granted patents across 194 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Subaru ranks #204 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,977 patents across 194 technology areas.

#204
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.2/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: +245%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R204 · Foreign Corporation #204 · 1,977 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #204/49,997
NEAR-PEER Lam Research
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 194 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +245% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lam Research Corporation (±12 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
3M Innovative… · near

68
Beijing Institute… · near

68
Snowflake · near

68
Subaru · this assignee

68
Duke University · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Subaru's Innovation Score is 68.2/100 (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.

How Subaru's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Subaru Corporation received 1,324 grants versus 384 in 2015–2019 (+245% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 334 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 75. Lead class Y02T accounts for 23.2% of the portfolio across 194 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mastercard International Incorporated (#200) and Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (#208).

Subaru's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Subaru Corporation moved from 576 to 924 grants (1.60x 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 #376. See the growth leaderboard.

Mastercard Intern…

2,038
IGT

2,014
Pratt & Whitney C…

2,008
King Fahd Univers…

2,002
Subaru ◀

1,977
Lam Research

1,965
Magic Leap

1,959
Facebook

1,950
Casio Computer

1,949

What this shows Subaru holds 1,977 patents at rank #204, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Subaru

By rank, the assignees closest to #204 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Snowflake Inc. 68 Beijing Institute of Technology 68 3M Innovative Properties Company 68 Duke University 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.5 here).

Bender GmbH & Co. KG 10.5 avg Fivetech Technology Inc. 10.5 avg Michelin Recherche ET Technique S.A. 10.5 avg Hirata Corporation 10.5 avg

Subaru's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Subaru Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	75	3.8%
2018	133	6.7%
2019	176	8.9%
2020	182	9.2%
2021	218	11.0%
2022	286	14.5%
2023	304	15.4%
2024	334	16.9%
2025partial year	269	13.6%

Which technologies does Subaru Corporation patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 458

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 449

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 308

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 292

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 240

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 233

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 180

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 126

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 116

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 96

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 92

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 88

F16H - Gearing 87

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 78

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 76

Top 15 of 194 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#204

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

68.2 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

Subaru Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Subaru Corporation's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 23.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #204 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Subaru Corporation against Mastercard International Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.2/100 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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