Where does Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. ranks #984 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 Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. hold?

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. holds 448 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 113 technology areas.

What is Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. focus on?

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 144 patents, ranking #76 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 113 CPC subclasses total.

Is Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -74% 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 Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.3 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 Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. 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

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 448 granted patents across 113 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yanmar ranks #984 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 448 patents across 113 technology areas.

#984
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 8.3
avg claims per patent: -74%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R984 · Foreign Corporation #984 · 448 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 448 grants
TOP-DECILE #984/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Richtek Technology
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 113 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -74% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Richtek Technology 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 Yanmar’s 52.3 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 21.1 pts (40%) Velocity 1.2 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crrc Tangshan · near

52
Erbe Elektromedizin · near

52
Pentair Flow · near

52
Yanmar Holdings · this assignee

52
Dayco IP Holdings · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yanmar's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Yanmar?

Each dot is one of Yanmar’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). Yanmar’s own 8.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Yanmar's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. received 85 grants versus 322 in 2015–2019 (-74% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 83 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 32.1% of the portfolio across 113 subclasses. Volume neighbours: THE Coca-cola Company (#980) and Spectrum Diversified Designs, LLC (#988).

Yanmar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. moved from 140 to 26 grants (0.19x 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 #3,109. See the growth leaderboard.

THE Coca-cola

449
Richtek Technology

448
Schneider Electri…

448
Wacker Chemie

448
Yanmar Holdings ◀

448
Universal City St…

447
Ecole Polytechniq…

446
RAI Strategic Hol…

446
Spectrum Diversif…

446

What this shows Yanmar holds 448 patents at rank #984, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Yanmar

By rank, the assignees closest to #984 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Yanmar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Yanmar ranks #76 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH 52 Pentair Flow Technologies, LLC 52 Crrc Tangshan Co., Ltd. 52 Dayco IP Holdings, LLC 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.3 here).

Mahle Filter Systems Japan Corporation 8.3 avg Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 8.3 avg The Noco Company 8.3 avg Hanwha Vision Co., Ltd. 8.3 avg

Yanmar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	48	10.7%
2016	64	14.3%
2017	83	18.5%
2018	46	10.3%
2019	81	18.1%
2020	58	12.9%
2021	1	0.2%
2022	1	0.2%
2023	2	0.4%
2024	23	5.1%
2025partial year	41	9.2%

Which technologies does Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 144

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 107

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 85

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 74

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 64

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 59

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 55

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 52

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 43

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 35

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 34

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 33

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 29

B01D - Separation 26

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 25

Top 15 of 113 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

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 32.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #984 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. against THE Coca-cola Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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

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

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