Where does Suzuki Motor Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suzuki Motor Corporation ranks #741 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 Suzuki Motor Corporation hold?

Suzuki Motor Corporation holds 616 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 120 technology areas.

What is Suzuki Motor Corporation's Innovation Score?

Suzuki Motor Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Suzuki Motor Corporation focus on?

Suzuki Motor Corporation's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 139 patents, ranking #79 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 120 CPC subclasses total.

Is Suzuki Motor Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Suzuki Motor Corporation's recent grant velocity is -47% 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 Suzuki Motor Corporation's patents?

Suzuki Motor Corporation's patents average 6.6 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 Suzuki Motor 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

Suzuki Motor Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 616 granted patents across 120 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suzuki ranks #741 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 616 patents across 120 technology areas.

#741
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 6.6
avg claims per patent: -47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R741 · Foreign Corporation #741 · 616 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 616 grants
TOP-DECILE #741/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bell Helicopter…
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 120 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bell Helicopter Textron 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 Suzuki’s 56.6 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 22.2 pts (39%) Velocity 5.5 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 4.0 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Ability Opto-… · near

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China Mobile… · near

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Suzuki Motor · this assignee

57
Content Square SAS · near

57
Seattle Children's… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Suzuki's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 Suzuki?

Each dot is one of Suzuki’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). Suzuki’s own 6.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Suzuki's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Suzuki Motor Corporation received 202 grants versus 379 in 2015–2019 (-47% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 103 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 30. Lead class Y02T accounts for 22.6% of the portfolio across 120 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Semes Co., Ltd. (#737) and Allergan, Inc. (#745).

Suzuki's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Suzuki Motor Corporation moved from 145 to 119 grants (0.82x 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 #1,766. See the growth leaderboard.

Semes

618
Institut National…

617
Invensense

617
Bell Helicopter T…

616
Uchicago Argonne

616
Suzuki Motor ◀

616
Fresenius Medical…

615
Dexerials

614
Allergan

612

What this shows Suzuki holds 616 patents at rank #741, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suzuki

By rank, the assignees closest to #741 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Suzuki, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Suzuki ranks #79 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Ability Opto-electronics Technology Co., Ltd. 57 China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. 57 Seattle Children's Hospital 57 Content Square SAS 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.6 here).

Ipex Technologies Inc. 6.6 avg Seasonal Specialties, LLC 6.6 avg Autel Intelligent Technology Corp., Ltd. 6.6 avg Xiamen Pvtech Co., Ltd. 6.6 avg

Suzuki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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.

View data table

Suzuki Motor Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	103	16.7%
2016	78	12.7%
2017	66	10.7%
2018	70	11.4%
2019	62	10.1%
2020	33	5.4%
2021	50	8.1%
2022	44	7.1%
2023	45	7.3%
2024	30	4.9%
2025partial year	35	5.7%

Which technologies does Suzuki Motor Corporation patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 139

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 97

B62K - CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like 87

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 86

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 85

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 80

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 63

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 57

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 52

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 52

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 52

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 49

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 49

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 44

F16H - Gearing 42

Top 15 of 120 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

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

Suzuki Motor Corporation's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 22.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #741 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suzuki Motor Corporation against Semes Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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