Where does Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA ranks #16,455 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 Europe NV/SA hold?

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's Innovation Score?

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% 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 Europe NV/SA focus on?

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 5 patents, ranking #2,157 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's patents?

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's patents average 13.6 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 Motor Europe NV/SA 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

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #16,455 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 30 technology areas.

#16,455
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16455 · Foreign Corporation #16,455 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,455/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Totes Isotoner
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Totes Isotoner Corporation (±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 44.3 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 (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 19.4 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Toyota Motor Europe / · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 13.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 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.

Where Toyota's grants concentrate

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 27.8% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Toyota sits between Totes Isotoner Corporation and Trigence Semiconductor, Inc..

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Totes Isotoner

18
Touchsensor

18
TOX Pressotechnik…

18
Toyama Chemical

18
TR Apparel

18
Transtech Systems

18
Triagenics

18
Trigence Semicond…

18
Toyota Motor Euro… ◀

18

What this shows Toyota holds 18 patents at rank #16,426, 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 #16,426 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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)

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

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 Europe NV/SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	22.2%
2016	3	16.7%
2017	5	27.8%
2019	2	11.1%
2021	1	5.6%
2022	1	5.6%
2023	2	11.1%

Which technologies does Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

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 2

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 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 1

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 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

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

Top 15 of 30 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 27.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #16,455 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA against Totes Isotoner Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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