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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. ranks #11,560 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. hold?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

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

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. has an Innovation Score of 37.7 out of 100 (top 43% 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.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.'s recent grant velocity is -70% 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.'s patents?

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.'s patents average 14.4 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 Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. 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

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.

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

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.'s top technology area is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors) with 18 patents, ranking #97 of 1,094 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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 #11,560 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 20 technology areas.

#11,560
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.7/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11560 · Foreign Corporation #11,560 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,560/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aero Industries
CPC-FOCUS F21S · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aero Industries, Inc. (±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 37.7 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 11.4 pts (30%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 15.8 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wellfine Silicone… · near

38
Automotive Lighting… · this assignee

38
TCO Group AS · near

38
Brolis Sensor… · near

38
Sofi Paper Products · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Automotive's Innovation Score is 37.7/100 (top 43% 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 14.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Automotive sits between Astrium SAS and Agri-Cover, Inc..

Automotive's three-year grant acceleration

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Astrium SAS

26
Atomic Energy OF…

26
Australian Nuclea…

26
Autefa Solutions…

26
Avermedia

26
Axcella Health

26
Aero Industries

26
Agri-cover

26
Automotive Lighti… ◀

26

What this shows Automotive holds 26 patents at rank #11,543, 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 #11,543 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Automotive, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices), Automotive ranks #97 of 1,094 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

TCO Group AS 38 Sofi Paper Products, LLC 38 Brolis Sensor Technology, UAB 38 Wellfine Silicone Products Co., Ltd. 38

Automotive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	23.1%
2016	3	11.5%
2017	3	11.5%
2018	5	19.2%
2019	3	11.5%
2020	3	11.5%
2021	1	3.8%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	1	3.8%

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

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 18

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

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 6

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

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

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 2

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

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 2

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 2

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 2

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 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

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

Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.'s lead technology class is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21S
Ranked #11,560 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. against Astrium SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.7/100 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

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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

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