Where does The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. ranks #304 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 The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. hold?

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. holds 1,405 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 143 technology areas.

What is The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +5% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patents?

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.2 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 The Yokohama Rubber 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

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. focus on?

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres) with 761 patents. Grants appear in 143 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,405 granted patents across 143 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: B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #304 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,405 patents across 143 technology areas.

#304
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: +5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R304 · Foreign Corporation #304 · 1,405 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #304/49,997
NEAR-PEER Thales
CPC-WIDE B60C · 143 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Thales (±7 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
The Cleveland… · near

61
Agency FOR Defense… · near

61
Monolithic 3D · near

61
Rakuten Symphony · near

61
The Yokohama Rubber · this assignee

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. received 676 grants versus 645 in 2015–2019 (+5% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 164 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 100. Lead class B60C accounts for 54.2% of the portfolio across 143 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Adobe Systems Incorporated (#300) and Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC (#308).

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. moved from 462 to 351 grants (0.76x 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 #1,962. See the growth leaderboard.

Adobe Systems Inc…

1,429
Tata Consultancy…

1,429
Motorola Mobility

1,427
Beijing BOE Displ…

1,414
The Yokohama Rubb… ◀

1,405
Thales

1,398
Nintendo

1,396
Sabic Global B V

1,394
Baker Hughes a GE

1,390

What this shows The holds 1,405 patents at rank #304, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #304 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Monolithic 3D Inc. 61 Agency FOR Defense Development 61 Rakuten Symphony, Inc. 61 The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.2 here).

Kubota Corporation 10.2 avg Soken, Inc. 10.2 avg Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi VE Ticaret Anonim Sirketi 10.2 avg Keystone Retaining Wall Systems, LLC 10.2 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	111	7.9%
2016	122	8.7%
2017	129	9.2%
2018	146	10.4%
2019	137	9.8%
2020	161	11.5%
2021	164	11.7%
2022	145	10.3%
2023	100	7.1%
2024	106	7.5%
2025partial year	84	6.0%

Which technologies does The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 761

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 216

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 187

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 138

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 129

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 106

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 64

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 60

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 52

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 47

C08C - Treatment OR Chemical Modification OF Rubbers 47

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 42

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 40

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 40

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 38

Top 15 of 143 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#304

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.2 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

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres), 54.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #304 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. against Adobe Systems Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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

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