Where does Toyota Connected North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Connected North America, Inc. ranks #7,491 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 Toyota Connected North America, Inc. hold?

Toyota Connected North America, Inc. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Toyota Connected North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +2700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s patents?

Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s patents average 18.2 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 Toyota Connected North America, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Toyota Connected North America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Toyota Connected North America, Inc. focus on?

Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 16 patents, ranking #176 of 1,122 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 41 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #7,491 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 41 technology areas.

#7,491
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.2/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +2700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7491 · US Corporation #7,491 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,491/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Snacktops
CPC-WIDE B60W · 41 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +2700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Snacktops, 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 Toyota’s 64.2 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 13.1 pts (20%) Velocity 17.5 pts (27%) Breadth 22.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sharp Display… · near

64
SRI International · near

64
Yamaha Hatsudoki · near

64
Toyota Connected… · this assignee

64
Optum · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 64.2/100 (top 2% 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 Toyota?

Each dot is one of Toyota’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). Toyota’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Toyota's grants concentrate

Toyota Connected North America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 36.4% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Toyota sits between Snacktops, Inc. and Thorley Industries, LLC.

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

Toyota Connected North America, Inc. shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Snacktops

44
Stant USA

44
Strike Industries

44
Temptime

44
Trackman A/S

44
Terves

44
The Charlotte Mec…

44
Thorley Industries

44
Toyota Connected… ◀

44

What this shows Toyota holds 44 patents at rank #7,488, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toyota

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,488 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Toyota, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), Toyota ranks #176 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Sharp Display Technology Corporation 64 SRI International 64 Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha 64 Optum, Inc. 64

Toyota's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Toyota Connected North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	2.3%
2020	3	6.8%
2021	4	9.1%
2022	6	13.6%
2023	5	11.4%
2024	10	22.7%
2025partial year	15	34.1%

Which technologies does Toyota Connected North America, Inc. patent most?

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 16

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 10

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 7

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 6

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

H03G - Control OF Amplification 3

Top 15 of 41 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

Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Connected North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 36.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #7,491 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Connected North America, Inc. against Snacktops, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.2/100 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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