Where does Toyota Motor Europe rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Motor Europe ranks #4,025 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 hold?

Toyota Motor Europe holds 90 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is Toyota Motor Europe's Innovation Score?

Toyota Motor Europe has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% 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 focus on?

Toyota Motor Europe's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 33 patents, ranking #207 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

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

Toyota Motor Europe's recent grant velocity is +800% 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 Europe's patents?

Toyota Motor Europe's patents average 14.9 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 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

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 90 granted patents across 62 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #4,025 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 90 patents across 62 technology areas.

#4,025
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4025 · Foreign Corporation #4,025 · 90 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 90 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,025/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Quanta Associates
CPC-WIDE H01M · 62 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Quanta Associates, L.P. (±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 57.0 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 15.6 pts (27%) Velocity 7.5 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shanghai Bright… · near

57
Toyota Motor Europe · this assignee

57
Axonics · near

57
DAF Trucks · near

57
Delphi IP · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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 14.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 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.

How Toyota's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toyota Motor Europe received 81 grants versus 9 in 2015–2019 (+800% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 22 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class H01M accounts for 36.7% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Quanta Associates, L.P. (#4,021) and B-K Medical APS (#4,029).

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toyota Motor Europe moved from 41 to 46 grants (1.12x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Quanta Associates

90
Santen Pharmaceut…

90
Soletanche Freyss…

90
Surefire

90
Tristar Products

90
Versata Developme…

90
Vertiv

90
Toyota Motor Euro… ◀

90
B-K Medical APS

89

What this shows Toyota holds 90 patents at rank #4,025, 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 #4,025 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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 H01M (Processes OR Means), Toyota ranks #207 of 2,332 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Shanghai Bright Power Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 57 Delphi Technologies IP Limited 57 DAF Trucks N.V. 57 Axonics, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Sacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola Societa' Cooperativa 14.9 avg EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems 14.9 avg HUBER+SUHNER AG 14.9 avg Transitions Optical, Ltd. 14.9 avg

Toyota's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.1%
2018	2	2.2%
2019	6	6.7%
2020	13	14.4%
2021	22	24.4%
2022	15	16.7%
2023	10	11.1%
2024	21	23.3%

Which technologies does Toyota Motor Europe patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 33

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 33

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

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 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 10

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 10

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 9

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 8

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 7

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

Top 15 of 62 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 Europe's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Motor Europe's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 36.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #4,025 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Motor Europe against Quanta Associates, L.P., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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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