This is the second consecutive year that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued more patents to Toyota designers and engineers than to any other automaker. According to a recently released publication by the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), in 2015 Toyota received 1,636 patents. Toyota during the last eight years has been granted more patents than any other automotive company.
Toyota is the only automaker listed among the top 20 on the IPO list. Other key innovators in the top 20 include Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft.
“As companies in the automotive industry transform themselves into broader mobility providers, no auto company better demonstrates innovation and technology for the future than Toyota,” says Jeff Makarewicz, senior vice president, Toyota Technical Center (TTC), Toyota’s North American research & development headquarters in Michigan.
