Where does Aptiv Technologies AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aptiv Technologies AG ranks #443 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 Aptiv Technologies AG hold?

Aptiv Technologies AG holds 1,025 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 134 technology areas.

What is Aptiv Technologies AG's Innovation Score?

Aptiv Technologies AG has an Innovation Score of 71.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Aptiv Technologies AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aptiv Technologies AG's recent grant velocity is +869% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Aptiv Technologies AG's patents?

Aptiv Technologies AG's patents average 17.4 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 Aptiv Technologies AG 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 Foreign Corporation

Aptiv Technologies AG

Q: What technology areas does Aptiv Technologies AG focus on?

Aptiv Technologies AG's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 306 patents. Grants appear in 134 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,025 granted patents across 134 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aptiv ranks #443 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,025 patents across 134 technology areas.

#443
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.7/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +869%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R443 · Foreign Corporation #443 · 1,025 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #443/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Deka Products…
CPC-WIDE G01S · 134 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +869% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Deka Products Limited Parternship (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Semes · near

72
AutoStore Technology… · near

72
Red Hat · near

72
Aptiv · this assignee

72
Beijing BOE Sensor… · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aptiv's Innovation Score is 71.7/100 (top 1% 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.

How Aptiv's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Aptiv Technologies AG received 814 grants versus 84 in 2015–2019 (+869% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 205 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 2. Lead class G01S accounts for 29.9% of the portfolio across 134 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Align Technology, Inc. (#439) and Commvault Systems, Inc. (#447).

Aptiv's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Aptiv Technologies AG moved from 315 to 581 grants (1.84x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #258. See the growth leaderboard.

Align Technology

1,029
Contemporary Ampe…

1,029
Carl Zeiss SMT

1,028
DSM IP Assets B V

1,027
Deka Products Par…

1,025
Palo Alto Researc…

1,025
Aptiv ◀

1,025
Kobe Steel

1,023
Commvault Systems

1,020

What this shows Aptiv holds 1,025 patents at rank #443, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aptiv

By rank, the assignees closest to #443 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aptiv, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. 72 Red Hat, Inc. 72 AutoStore Technology AS 72 Semes Co., Ltd. 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Agilent Technologies, Inc. 17.4 avg ARM IP Limited 17.4 avg Pictometry International Corp. 17.4 avg Vetco Gray, LLC 17.4 avg

Aptiv's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Aptiv Technologies AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	0.2%
2019	82	8.0%
2020	110	10.7%
2021	123	12.0%
2022	187	18.2%
2023	205	20.0%
2024	189	18.4%
2025partial year	127	12.4%

Which technologies does Aptiv Technologies AG patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 306

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 249

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 166

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 157

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 114

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 109

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 85

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 79

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 77

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 73

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 73

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 64

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 54

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 50

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 46

Top 15 of 134 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#443

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

71.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Aptiv Technologies AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aptiv Technologies AG's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 29.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #443 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aptiv Technologies AG against Align Technology, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.7/100 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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