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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Motor North America, Inc. ranks #924 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 North America, Inc. hold?

Toyota Motor North America, Inc. holds 483 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 106 technology areas.

What is Toyota Motor North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Toyota Motor North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 76.4 out of 100 (top 1% 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 North America, Inc. focus on?

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 113 patents, ranking #492 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 106 CPC subclasses total.

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

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +40800% 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 North America, Inc.'s patents?

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.'s patents average 16.7 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.

How is the Toyota Motor 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 483 granted patents across 106 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #924 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 483 patents across 106 technology areas.

#924
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (76.4/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +40800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R924 · US Corporation #924 · 483 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 483 grants
TOP-DECILE #924/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atmel
CPC-WIDE G06F · 106 areas
INNOV-STRONG 76.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +40800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atmel 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 76.4 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 21.4 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (26%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Zoox · near

77
Siemens Healthineers · near

76
Toyota Motor North… · this assignee

76
T-Mobile Innovations · near

76
Telefonaktiebolaget… · near

76
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 76.4/100 (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 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 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.

How Toyota's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. received 409 grants versus 1 in 2015–2019 (+40800% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 126 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 1. Lead class G06F accounts for 23.4% of the portfolio across 106 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rhodia Operations (#920) and ConocoPhillips Company (#928).

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. moved from 78 to 332 grants (4.26x 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 #39. See the growth leaderboard.

Rhodia Operations

484
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo

484
Atmel

483
Pioneer

483
Toyota Motor Nort… ◀

483
Sika Technology

482
The Swatch Group…

482
Corning Research…

481
Conocophillips

481

What this shows Toyota holds 483 patents at rank #924, 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 #924 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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 G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Toyota ranks #492 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (76 here).

Siemens Healthineers AG 76 T-Mobile Innovations LLC 76 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) 76 Zoox, Inc. 77

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Melexis Technologies SA 16.7 avg Andritz Inc. 16.7 avg Sorin Group Italia S.r.l. 16.7 avg Flosfia Inc. 16.7 avg

Toyota's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

76 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 · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Toyota Motor North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	0.2%
2020	27	5.6%
2021	50	10.4%
2022	102	21.1%
2023	126	26.1%
2024	104	21.5%
2025partial year	73	15.1%

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

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 113

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 112

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 111

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 96

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 87

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 86

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 77

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 51

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 48

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 48

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 44

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 41

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 37

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 33

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 24

Top 15 of 106 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 North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 23.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #924 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Motor North America, Inc. against Rhodia Operations, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 76.4/100 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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