Where does Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB ranks #16,454 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 Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB hold?

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's Innovation Score?

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB has an Innovation Score of 30.5 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's recent grant velocity is +25% 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 Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's patents?

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's patents average 10.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB

Q: What technology areas does Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB focus on?

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's top technology area is B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load) with 10 patents, ranking #33 of 447 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB 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 PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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: B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #16,454 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 14 technology areas.

#16,454
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.5/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16454 · Foreign Corporation #16,454 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,454/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Third Pole
CPC-FOCUS B66F · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Third Pole, 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 30.5 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 10.2 pts (34%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 13.2 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Obelux Oy · near

30
State Atomic Energy… · near

30
Tokyo Denki University · near

30
Semiconductor… · near

30
Toyota Material… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 30.5/100 (34th percentile 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 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Toyota's grants concentrate

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Toyota sits between Third Pole, Inc. and Tubis Technology Inc..

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Third Pole

18
Tixtrack

18
Tomra Sorting

18
Toshiba America B…

18
Traina Interactive

18
Translate Bio MA

18
Tronox

18
Tubis Technology

18
Toyota Material H… ◀

18

What this shows Toyota holds 18 patents at rank #16,457, 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 #16,457 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B66F (Hoisting)

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 B66F (Hoisting), Toyota ranks #33 of 447 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. 30 State Atomic Energy Corporation “ROSATOM” Acts on Behalf of the Russian Federation 30 Tokyo Denki University 30 Obelux Oy 30

Toyota's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

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

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Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	5.6%
2018	2	11.1%
2019	5	27.8%
2020	7	38.9%
2021	1	5.6%
2022	1	5.6%
2024	1	5.6%

Which technologies does Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB patent most?

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 10

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 4

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

Top 14 of 14 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 Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB's lead technology class is B66F (Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B66F
Ranked #16,454 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden AB against Third Pole, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.5/100 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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