Where does Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH ranks #7,373 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 Reutlingen GmbH hold?

Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH's Innovation Score?

Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH has an Innovation Score of 36.9 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH's recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Reutlingen GmbH's patents?

Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH's patents average 11.9 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 Reutlingen GmbH 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 Reutlingen GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH focus on?

Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH's top technology area is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors) with 38 patents, ranking #48 of 1,094 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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 #7,373 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 22 technology areas.

#7,373
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.9/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7373 · Foreign Corporation #7,373 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,373/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Agility Fuel Systems
CPC-FOCUS F21S · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Agility Fuel Systems 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 36.9 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 13.1 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 16.6 pts (45%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Automotive Lighting… · this assignee

37
Baumueller Nuernberg · near

37
Eptech · near

37
Fuji Electric FA… · near

37
Zhejiang Yotrio Group · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Automotive's Innovation Score is 36.9/100 (top 45% 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 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 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 Reutlingen GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 86.4% of grants classified under F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (14 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Automotive sits between Agility Fuel Systems LLC and Beijing Huamei, Inc..

Agility Fuel Syst…

44
Amrad Manufacturi…

44
Anvil Internation…

44
Arris Composites

44
Autonomix Medical

44
Banks AND Acquire…

44
Bravo MFG

44
Beijing Huamei

44
Automotive Lighti… ◀

44

What this shows Automotive holds 44 patents at rank #7,375, 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 #7,375 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 #48 of 1,094 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd. 37 Zhejiang Yotrio Group Co., Ltd. 37 Baumueller Nuernberg GmbH 37 Eptech Co., Ltd. 37

Automotive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

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 Reutlingen GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	9.1%
2016	14	31.8%
2017	7	15.9%
2018	9	20.5%
2019	6	13.6%
2020	4	9.1%

Which technologies does Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH patent most?

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 38

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 9

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 9

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

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

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH's lead technology class is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors), 86.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21S
Ranked #7,373 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH against Agility Fuel Systems LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.9/100 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

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