Where does Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA ranks #38,392 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 Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA hold?

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's Innovation Score?

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA focus on?

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 5 patents, ranking #163 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's patents?

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's patents average 21.9 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 Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA 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

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 5 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yamaha ranks #38,392 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 5 technology areas.

#38,392
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 21.9
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38392 · US Corporation #38,392 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,392/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Yamato
CPC-NARROW B63B · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Yamato 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 Yamaha’s 41.5 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 7.2 pts (17%) Velocity 13.3 pts (32%) Breadth 7.9 pts (19%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Yamaha Motor USA · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yamaha's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Yamaha?

Each dot is one of Yamaha’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). Yamaha’s own 21.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 5.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Yamaha's grants concentrate

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Yamaha sits between Yueqing Originality Photography Equipment Co., Ltd. and Yikes LLC.

Yamaha's three-year grant acceleration

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Yueqing Originali…

7
Yungjin Pharm

7
Yungjin Pharmaceu…

7
Yuyao Feite Plast…

7
Yamato

7
Yang Bey Industri…

7
Yield10 Bioscience

7
Yikes

7
Yamaha Motor USA ◀

7

What this shows Yamaha holds 7 patents at rank #38,376, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Yamaha

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,376 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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

Yamaha's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	14.3%
2017	2	28.6%
2023	2	28.6%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 5

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA's lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #38,392 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA against Yueqing Originality Photography Equipment Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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