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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc ranks #43,728 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 Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc hold?

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc's Innovation Score?

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc focus on?

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc's top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 2 patents, ranking #691 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

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

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc's recent grant velocity is +400% 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 Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc's patents?

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc's patents average 17.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc

Q: How is the Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North 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 - 6 granted patents across 12 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #43,728 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 12 technology areas.

#43,728
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43728 · US Corporation #43,728 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #43,728/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH TORmem
CPC-FOCUS B62D · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: TORmem 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 49.6 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 6.7 pts (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 12.2 pts (25%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (21%)

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What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.2 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 Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Toyota sits between TORmem Inc. and Trebco LLC.

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Toyota holds 6 patents at rank #43,578, 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 #43,578 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Toyota's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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 Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	16.7%
2020	1	16.7%
2022	1	16.7%
2023	2	33.3%
2024	1	16.7%

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

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

F16H - Gearing 1

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 1

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

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

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 1

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 12 of 12 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 Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc's lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #43,728 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc against TORmem Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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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