Where does Adient US LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Adient US LLC ranks #5,136 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 Adient US LLC hold?

Adient US LLC holds 67 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Adient US LLC's Innovation Score?

Adient US LLC has an Innovation Score of 57.9 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Adient US LLC focus on?

Adient US LLC's top technology area is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 65 patents, ranking #26 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Adient US LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Adient US LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Adient US LLC's patents?

Adient US LLC's patents average 12.5 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 Adient US LLC 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

Adient US LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 67 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Adient ranks #5,136 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 67 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,136
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.9/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5136 · US Corporation #5,136 · 67 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 67 grants
UPPER-Q #5,136/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Agfa Healthcare
CPC-FOCUS B60N · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Agfa Healthcare NV (±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 Adient’s 57.9 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 14.6 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 15.8 pts (27%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
North China… · near

58
Adient US · this assignee

58
Dignity Health · near

58
Dualitas · near

58
Nihon Kohden · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Adient's Innovation Score is 57.9/100 (top 5% 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 Adient?

Each dot is one of Adient’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). Adient’s own 12.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Adient's grants concentrate

Adient US LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 97% of grants classified under B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (23 grants) versus a trough of 15 in 2022. By volume, Adient sits between Agfa Healthcare NV and Beken Corporation.

Adient's three-year grant acceleration

Adient US LLC shows 53 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Agfa Healthcare

67
Amgen Research (M…

67
Amini Innovation

67
Areva NP

67
Ancestry com Oper…

67
Arevo

67
Aviatrix Systems

67
Beken

67
Adient US ◀

67

What this shows Adient holds 67 patents at rank #5,140, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Adient

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,140 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Adient, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles), Adient ranks #26 of 645 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Dualitas Ltd 58 Dignity Health 58 Nihon Kohden Corporation 58 North China Electrical Power University 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.5 here).

Shanghaitech University 12.5 avg Accton Technology Corporation 12.5 avg Aichi Steel Corporation 12.5 avg Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH 12.5 avg

Adient's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Adient US LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	15	22.4%
2023	15	22.4%
2024	23	34.3%
2025partial year	14	20.9%

Which technologies does Adient US LLC patent most?

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 65

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Adient US LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Adient US LLC's lead technology class is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 97% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60N
Ranked #5,136 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Adient US LLC against Agfa Healthcare NV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.