Company Analysis

Toyota Motor Corporation (TM)

NYSE: TM · Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car Bodies · Japan, JP · filing with the SEC since 2002
Grade6.5
◀ Past 6.7● Present 7.4▶ Future 5.3
1 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

112 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Toyota Motor Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
112
107 utility, 4 design, 1 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
4
Against 3 in 2024 and 7 in 2023
Applications published
99
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Basic materials chemistry9
Biotechnology8
Semiconductors1
Optics1
Measurement1
Transport1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Toyota Motor Corporation its own name
JP, as the owner printed on each patent. 36 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US, printed in SS, printed in MY)
112 granted
71 published
Toyota Motor Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in JP
0 granted
28 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jun 3, 202512,319,134Electric tractorTransportToyota Motor Corporation
Apr 15, 202512,276,719Radar device and signal processing method of radar deviceMeasurementToyota Motor Corporation
Feb 11, 202512,221,593Compositions for facilitating the removal of a fingerprintBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation
Jan 14, 202512,195,704Compositions for facilitating biological stain removalBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation
Nov 12, 202412,139,701Biofunctional materialsBiotechnologyToyota Motor Corporation
Nov 5, 202412,134,751Bioactive protein-polymer compositions for stain removalBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation
Aug 13, 202412,060,497Coatings containing polymer modified enzyme for stable self-cleaning of organic stainsBiotechnologyToyota Motor Corporation
Dec 5, 202311,834,635Methods of facilitating removal of a fingerprintBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation
Oct 24, 202311,796,724Omnidirectional structural color made from metal and dielectric layersOpticsToyota Motor Corporation
Jul 4, 202311,692,156Bioactive protein-polymer compositions for stain removalBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jan 16, 20252025/0019566COATINGS CONTAINING POLYMER MODIFIED ENZYME FOR STABLE SELF-CLEANING OF ORGANIC STAINSBiotechnologyToyota Motor Corporation
May 16, 20242024/0158722METHODS OF FACILITATING REMOVAL OF A FINGERPRINTBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation · patent 12,221,593 granted from it
Nov 23, 20232023/0374420BIOACTIVE MATERIALSBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation · patent 12,134,751 granted from it
Oct 26, 20232023/0340296COATINGS CONTAINING ENZYME FOR STABLE SELF-CLEANING OF ORGANIC STAINSBiotechnologyToyota Motor Corporation
Jul 27, 20232023/0235251ENZYME FOR EASY-CLEANING OF STAINSBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation · patent 12,195,704 granted from it
Jul 6, 20232023/0212426Coatings Containing Polymer Modified Enzyme For Stable Self-Cleaning Of Organic StainsBiotechnologyToyota Motor Corporation
May 4, 20232023/0132970Electric TractorTransportToyota Motor Corporation · patent 12,319,134 granted from it
Jan 5, 20232023/0002695LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITIONBasic materials chemistryToyota Motor Corporation · patent 11,946,012 granted from it
Oct 6, 20222022/0317277RADAR DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD OF RADAR DEVICEMeasurementToyota Motor Corporation · patent 12,276,719 granted from it
Aug 4, 20222022/0243309FERRITIC STAINLESS STEEL SHEET FOR COLLECTORS OF SULFIDE-BASED SOLID-STATE BATTERIESMaterials, metallurgyToyota Motor Corporation
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Basic materials chemistry 1 · Biotechnology 1.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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