Where does TRW Airbag Systems GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TRW Airbag Systems GMBH ranks #7,093 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 TRW Airbag Systems GMBH hold?

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's Innovation Score?

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH has an Innovation Score of 45.3 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does TRW Airbag Systems GMBH focus on?

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 47 patents, ranking #95 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's recent grant velocity is -58% 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 TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's patents?

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's patents average 22.1 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 TRW Airbag Systems GMBH 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

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 21 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, TRW ranks #7,093 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 21 technology areas.

#7,093
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.3/100): 22.1
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7093 · Foreign Corporation #7,093 · 47 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,093/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Supernus Pharmaceuti…
CPC-FOCUS B60R · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Supernus Pharmaceuticals, 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 TRW’s 45.3 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 13.4 pts (30%) Velocity 2.5 pts (6%) Breadth 16.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Corbion Biotech · near

45
Erema Engineering… · near

45
Medtrum · near

45
TRW Airbag Systems · this assignee

45
Tamron · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows TRW's Innovation Score is 45.3/100 (top 23% 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 TRW?

Each dot is one of TRW’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). TRW’s own 22.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

TRW vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where TRW's grants concentrate

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, TRW sits between Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and TricorBraun Inc..

TRW's three-year grant acceleration

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Supernus Pharmace…

47
THE Doshisha

47
Toyo Denso

47
Trinity Industrial

47
Techtronic Power…

47
Tesat-spacecom &…

47
Tomoegawa

47
Tricorbraun

47
TRW Airbag Systems ◀

47

What this shows TRW holds 47 patents at rank #7,088, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TRW

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,088 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for TRW, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), TRW ranks #95 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Corbion Biotech, Inc. 45 Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen UND Anlagen Gesellschaft, M.B.H. 45 Medtrum Technologies Inc. 45 Tamron Co., Ltd. 45

TRW's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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TRW Airbag Systems GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	14.9%
2016	8	17.0%
2017	6	12.8%
2018	4	8.5%
2019	8	17.0%
2020	3	6.4%
2021	5	10.6%
2022	4	8.5%
2023	1	2.1%
2024	1	2.1%

Which technologies does TRW Airbag Systems GMBH patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 47

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 15

C06D - Means FOR Generating Smoke OR MIST; Gas-attack COMPOSITIONS; Generation OF GAS FOR Blasting OR Propulsion (CHEMICAL PART) 6

B01D - Separation 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

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 4

C06B - Explosives OR Thermic Compositions ; Manufacture THEREOF; USE OF Single Substances AS Explosives 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 1

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 21 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

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH's lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #7,093 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TRW Airbag Systems GMBH against Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.3/100 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

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