Where does Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. ranks #115 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +27% 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 Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.'s patents?

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.'s patents average 17.3 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 US Corporation

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Q: How is the Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing 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 PatentsView assignee record - 3,200 granted patents across 326 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #115 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,200 patents across 326 technology areas.

#115
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.5/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R115 · US Corporation #115 · 3,200 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #115/49,997
NEAR-PEER Sumitomo Wiring…
CPC-BROAD B60R · 326 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (±10 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 70.5 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 27.9 pts (40%) Velocity 7.3 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Innolux · near

71
Fujifilm · near

71
Toyota Motor… · this assignee

71
Commscope · near

71
Seiko Epson · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 70.5/100 (top 1% 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 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 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.

How Toyota's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. received 1,671 grants versus 1,319 in 2015–2019 (+27% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 395 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 173. Lead class B60R accounts for 15% of the portfolio across 326 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Illinois Tool Works Inc. (#111) and Raytheon Company (#119).

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. moved from 949 to 1,035 grants (1.09x 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 #974. See the growth leaderboard.

Illinois Tool Wor…

3,292
Toshiba TEC

3,280
Nippon Telegraph…

3,279
Yazaki

3,264
Toyota Motor Engi… ◀

3,200
Sumitomo Wiring S…

3,190
Medtronic

3,184
Stmicroelectronics

3,182
Raytheon

3,108

What this shows Toyota holds 3,200 patents at rank #115, 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 #115 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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 B60R (Vehicles), Toyota ranks #14 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Commscope Technologies LLC 71 Fujifilm Corporation 71 Innolux Corporation 71 Seiko Epson Corporation 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

National Research Council of Canada 17.3 avg Oregon State University 17.3 avg Synaptics Japan GK 17.3 avg Sanko Tekstil Isletmeleri San. Ve Tic. A.S. 17.3 avg

Toyota's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	173	5.4%
2016	257	8.0%
2017	267	8.3%
2018	309	9.7%
2019	313	9.8%
2020	315	9.8%
2021	321	10.0%
2022	350	10.9%
2023	395	12.3%
2024	290	9.1%
2025partial year	210	6.6%

Which technologies does Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 480

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 475

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 307

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 289

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 273

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 250

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 240

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 228

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 224

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 203

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 192

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 187

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 152

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 151

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 151

Top 15 of 326 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 Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 15% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #115 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. against Illinois Tool Works Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.5/100 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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