Where does Volvo CAR Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Volvo CAR Corporation ranks #358 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 Volvo CAR Corporation hold?

Volvo CAR Corporation holds 1,206 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 178 technology areas.

What is Volvo CAR Corporation's Innovation Score?

Volvo CAR Corporation has an Innovation Score of 66.3 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%).

Is Volvo CAR Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Volvo CAR Corporation's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Volvo CAR Corporation's patents?

Volvo CAR Corporation's patents average 12.5 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 Volvo CAR Corporation 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

Volvo CAR Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Volvo CAR Corporation focus on?

Volvo CAR Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 202 patents, ranking #29 of 1,122 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 178 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,206 granted patents across 178 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Volvo ranks #358 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,206 patents across 178 technology areas.

#358
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.3/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R358 · Foreign Corporation #358 · 1,206 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #358/49,997
NEAR-PEER Pixart Imaging
CPC-WIDE B60W · 178 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pixart Imaging Inc. (±6 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 Volvo’s 66.3 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 24.5 pts (37%) Velocity 9.3 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Konica Minolta… · near

66
THE Johns Hopkins… · near

66
China Petroleum &… · near

66
Sharp · near

66
Volvo CAR · this assignee

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Volvo's Innovation Score is 66.3/100 (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 Volvo?

Each dot is one of Volvo’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). Volvo’s own 12.5 claims/patent is at or below the 18.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Volvo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Volvo CAR Corporation received 701 grants versus 350 in 2015–2019 (+100% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 158 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 50. Lead class B60W accounts for 16.7% of the portfolio across 178 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Imagination Technologies Limited (#354) and Altera Corporation (#362).

Volvo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Volvo CAR Corporation moved from 327 to 456 grants (1.39x 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 #524. See the growth leaderboard.

Imagination

1,222
Beijing Baidu Net…

1,221
Rolls-royce

1,213
Pixart Imaging

1,212
Volvo CAR ◀

1,206
Magna

1,198
The United States…

1,197
X Development

1,197
Altera

1,196

What this shows Volvo holds 1,206 patents at rank #358, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Volvo

By rank, the assignees closest to #358 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Volvo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), Volvo ranks #29 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 66 China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation 66 THE Johns Hopkins University 66 Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.5 here).

Colgate-Palmolive Company 12.5 avg Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH 12.5 avg THE Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Arkansas 12.5 avg Aichi Steel Corporation 12.5 avg

Volvo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Volvo CAR Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	50	4.1%
2016	65	5.4%
2017	75	6.2%
2018	78	6.5%
2019	82	6.8%
2020	119	9.9%
2021	126	10.4%
2022	141	11.7%
2023	158	13.1%
2024	157	13.0%
2025partial year	155	12.9%

Which technologies does Volvo CAR Corporation patent most?

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 202

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 174

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 148

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 133

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 126

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 119

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 98

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 84

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 84

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 58

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 57

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 55

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 54

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 50

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 48

Top 15 of 178 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

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Volvo CAR Corporation's lead technology class is 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), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #358 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Volvo CAR Corporation against Imagination Technologies Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.3/100 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

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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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