Where does Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #15,066 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 Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (46th percentile 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 Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha focus on?

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 6 patents, ranking #344 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha'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 Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha's patents average 6.5 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha

Q: How is the Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha 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 PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yamaha ranks #15,066 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 26 technology areas.

#15,066
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 6.5
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15066 · Foreign Corporation #15,066 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #15,066/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Xiros
CPC-FOCUS B62D · 26 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Xiros Limited (±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 33.8 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 (31%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 18.0 pts (53%) Claim depth 3.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Yamaha's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (46th percentile 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 6.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Yamaha's grants concentrate

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Yamaha sits between Xjet Ltd. and Zehnder Group International AG.

Yamaha's three-year grant acceleration

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Xjet

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Xiros

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Xtone

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Yantai Shougang M…

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Youar

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Zehnder Group Int…

20
Yamaha Motor Powe… ◀

20

What this shows Yamaha holds 20 patents at rank #15,059, 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 #15,059 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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)

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

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 Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	15.0%
2016	1	5.0%
2017	1	5.0%
2018	3	15.0%
2019	4	20.0%
2020	4	20.0%
2021	2	10.0%
2022	1	5.0%
2023	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 6

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 4

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 4

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 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 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

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 2

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 2

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 2

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 2

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

H04B - Transmission 1

Top 15 of 26 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 Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 30% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #15,066 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha against Xjet Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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