Where does Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. ranks #1,250 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 Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. hold?

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. holds 339 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patents average 4.7 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 Toyo Tire & 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

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. focus on?

Toyo Tire & 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 96 patents, ranking #12 of 319 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 339 granted patents across 58 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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, Toyo ranks #1,250 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 339 patents across 58 technology areas.

#1,250
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 4.7
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1250 · Foreign Corporation #1,250 · 339 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 339 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,250/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH HP Indigo B V
CPC-WIDE B60C · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: HP Indigo B.V. (±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 Toyo’s 48.0 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 20.1 pts (42%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (52%) Claim depth 2.8 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
European Molecular… · near

48
Inter-university… · near

48
KEY Foundry · near

48
PIC · near

48
Toyo Tire & Rubber · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toyo's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Toyo?

Each dot is one of Toyo’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). Toyo’s own 4.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Toyo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. received 11 grants versus 328 in 2015–2019 (-97% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 83 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class B60C accounts for 28.3% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sonova AG (#1,245) and Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (#1,253).

Sonova

340
Wirtgen

340
HP Indigo B V

339
Smith & Nephew

339
Tektronix

339
Toyo Tire & Rubber ◀

339
Bendix Commercial…

338
Gambro Lundia AB

338
Integrated Device…

338

What this shows Toyo holds 339 patents at rank #1,249, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toyo

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,249 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Toyo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60C (Vehicle Tyres), Toyo ranks #12 of 319 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

KEY Foundry Co., Ltd. 48 Inter-university Research Institute Coporation National Institutes OF Natural Sciences 48 PIC Corporation 48 European Molecular Biology Laboratory 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.7 here).

Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. 4.7 avg Ledil OY 4.7 avg New Motech Co., Ltd. 4.7 avg SMK Corporation 4.7 avg

Toyo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	58	17.1%
2016	67	19.8%
2017	74	21.8%
2018	83	24.5%
2019	46	13.6%
2020	10	2.9%
2021	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Toyo Tire & 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 96

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 41

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 33

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 30

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 25

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 24

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 19

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 16

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 16

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 14

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 12

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

C08C - Treatment OR Chemical Modification OF Rubbers 9

Top 15 of 58 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

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyo Tire & 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), 28.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #1,250 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. against Sonova AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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