Where does Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. ranks #15,011 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 Sales, U.S.A., Inc. hold?

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.8 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -95% 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 Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s patents?

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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.

How is the Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., 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 Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. focus on?

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s top technology area is 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 ) with 10 patents, ranking #274 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toyota ranks #15,011 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 25 technology areas.

#15,011
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.8/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15011 · US Corporation #15,011 · 20 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #15,011/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Thyssenkrupp Rothe…
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde GMBH (±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 45.8 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 10.5 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 17.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Toyota Motor Sales U · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Toyota's Innovation Score is 45.8/100 (top 22% 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 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 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 Sales, U.S.A., Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under 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 Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Toyota sits between Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde GMBH and Tunghai University.

Toyota's three-year grant acceleration

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. shows 1 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.

Thyssenkrupp Roth…

20
Tokai University…

20
Tokyo GAS

20
Tolero Pharmaceut…

20
Trojan

20
Trumpf Huettinger…

20
Tsmc Solar

20
Tunghai University

20
Toyota Motor Sale… ◀

20

What this shows Toyota holds 20 patents at rank #14,986, 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 #14,986 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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)

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	25.0%
2017	5	25.0%
2018	8	40.0%
2019	1	5.0%
2023	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. patent most?

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 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

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 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

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 4

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 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

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

Top 15 of 25 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 Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #15,011 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. against Thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.8/100 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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