Where does Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico ranks #28,179 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 Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico hold?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2019, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's Innovation Score?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico has an Innovation Score of 31.9 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's recent grant velocity is -100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's patents?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's patents average 18.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico

Q: What technology areas does Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico focus on?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's top technology area is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors) with 6 patents, ranking #249 of 1,094 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico 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 PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2019. 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: F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Automotive ranks #28,179 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 13 technology areas.

#28,179
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.9/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28179 · Foreign Corporation #28,179 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,179/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Auto IP
CPC-FOCUS F21S · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Auto IP LLC (±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 Automotive’s 31.9 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 8.0 pts (25%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Automotive Lighting… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Automotive's Innovation Score is 31.9/100 (39th percentile 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 Automotive?

Each dot is one of Automotive’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). Automotive’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Automotive's grants concentrate

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Automotive sits between Auto IP LLC and Avery Design Systems, Inc..

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9

What this shows Automotive holds 9 patents at rank #28,186, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Automotive

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,186 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices)

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

Automotive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	22.2%
2017	4	44.4%
2018	2	22.2%
2019	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico patent most?

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 6

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 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 4

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico's lead technology class is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21S
Ranked #28,179 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico against Auto IP LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.9/100 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

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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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