Leading Technologies

Worldwide, Westport and its affiliates have filed over 950 patent applications, relating to over 225 inventions.

And we held about 400 issued patents worldwide, including more than 90 issued U.S. patents.

Westport's extensive intellectual property (IP) portfolio gives Westport and its partners a competitive advantage. Our expertise includes: injectors (combined gaseous fuel/pilot fuel injectors and monofuel injectors), combustion chamber geometry and control strategies, engine fuel systems, cryogenic storage and delivery (cryogenic tanks and cryogenic pumps), compressors, vehicle integration, and other related technologies.

This chart shows only a portion of our full IP portfolio*—natural gas injection, engine, and combustion technology—and illustrates our strength and leadership in this market.

• Based on the patent search results of publicly available data within the International Patent Classification F02, meeting the search term criteria: one of ("engine" or "combustion" or "injector" or "injection valve") and ("natural gas" or "methane" or "gaseous fuel") and in the claims, not ("fuel cell" or "turbine"). This chart includes issued or granted patents from: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Ceuta and Melilla, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, European Patent Office Grants, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, OAPI grants, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, USSR, Yugoslavia, and pending published patent applications from: Canada, China, the European Patent Office, USA, and the World Intellectual Property Office.