Where does Yazaki North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yazaki North America, Inc. ranks #7,099 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 Yazaki North America, Inc. hold?

Yazaki North America, Inc. holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Yazaki North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Yazaki North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.6 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Yazaki North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yazaki North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Yazaki North America, Inc.'s patents?

Yazaki North America, Inc.'s patents average 17.2 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 Yazaki North America, Inc. 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

Yazaki North America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Yazaki North America, Inc. focus on?

Yazaki North America, Inc.'s top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 29 patents, ranking #117 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 33 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yazaki ranks #7,099 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 33 technology areas.

#7,099
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.6/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7099 · US Corporation #7,099 · 47 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,099/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH University Of Basel
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: University Of Basel (±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 Yazaki’s 47.6 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 (28%) Velocity 3.6 pts (8%) Breadth 20.3 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Humax · near

48
Liebherr-werk Nenzing · near

48
Novozymes Bioag A/S · near

48
RealD · near

48
Yazaki North America · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yazaki's Innovation Score is 47.6/100 (top 18% 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 Yazaki?

Each dot is one of Yazaki’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). Yazaki’s own 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Yazaki's grants concentrate

Yazaki North America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 61.7% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Yazaki sits between University Of Basel and Zimmer Biomet CMF and Thoracic, LLC.

Yazaki's three-year grant acceleration

Yazaki North America, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

University Of Bas…

47
University of New…

47
Vehicle Service G…

47
Viewray

47
Zenuity AB

47
Ziehl-abegg SE

47
Zhejiang Hengfeng…

47
Zimmer Biomet CMF…

47
Yazaki North Amer… ◀

47

What this shows Yazaki holds 47 patents at rank #7,098, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Yazaki

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,098 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Yazaki, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Yazaki ranks #117 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Novozymes Bioag A/S 48 Liebherr-werk Nenzing GMBH 48 Humax Co., Ltd. 48 RealD Inc. 48

Yazaki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Yazaki North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	14.9%
2016	8	17.0%
2017	8	17.0%
2018	4	8.5%
2019	7	14.9%
2020	2	4.3%
2021	2	4.3%
2022	4	8.5%
2024	2	4.3%
2025partial year	3	6.4%

Which technologies does Yazaki North America, Inc. patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 29

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 9

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

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 5

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 3

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 3

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 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 2

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

Top 15 of 33 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

Yazaki North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yazaki North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 61.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #7,099 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yazaki North America, Inc. against University Of Basel, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.6/100 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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