Where does Automotive Research & Testing Center rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Automotive Research & Testing Center ranks #2,957 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 Research & Testing Center hold?

Automotive Research & Testing Center holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is Automotive Research & Testing Center's Innovation Score?

Automotive Research & Testing Center has an Innovation Score of 53.1 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Automotive Research & Testing Center's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Automotive Research & Testing Center's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Research & Testing Center's patents?

Automotive Research & Testing Center'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 Research & Testing Center 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 Research & Testing Center

Q: What technology areas does Automotive Research & Testing Center focus on?

Automotive Research & Testing Center's top technology area is 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) with 35 patents, ranking #111 of 1,122 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 61 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Automotive ranks #2,957 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 61 technology areas.

#2,957
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2957 · Foreign Corporation #2,957 · 128 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,957/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Akzo Nobel Coatings…
CPC-WIDE B60W · 61 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. (±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 53.1 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 16.8 pts (32%) Velocity 4.2 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Automotive Research… · this assignee

53
European Space Agency · near

53
Kennametal India · near

53
PetroChina · near

53
National University… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Automotive's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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 15.7 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.

How Automotive's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Automotive Research & Testing Center received 55 grants versus 64 in 2015–2019 (-14% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 5. Lead class B60W accounts for 27.3% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Swagelok Company (#2,953) and Ericsson AB (#2,961).

Automotive's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Automotive Research & Testing Center moved from 43 to 27 grants (0.63x 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 #2,371. See the growth leaderboard.

Swagelok

129
University OF Sou…

129
Woodstream

129
Akzo Nobel Coatin…

128
Beijing Kuaimajia…

128
Cytec Industries

128
Discma

128
Ericsson AB

128
Automotive Resear… ◀

128

What this shows Automotive holds 128 patents at rank #2,957, 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 #2,957 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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 B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), Automotive ranks #111 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

PetroChina Company Limited 53 European Space Agency 53 Kennametal India Ltd. 53 National University Corporation Chiba University 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.9 here).

National Chiao Tung University 11.9 avg Crocus Technology SA 11.9 avg Safran Nacelles 11.9 avg 22nd Century Limited, LLC 11.9 avg

Automotive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Automotive Research & Testing Center patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	10.2%
2016	13	10.2%
2017	10	7.8%
2018	13	10.2%
2019	15	11.7%
2020	17	13.3%
2021	11	8.6%
2022	8	6.3%
2023	14	10.9%
2024	5	3.9%
2025partial year	9	7.0%

Which technologies does Automotive Research & Testing Center patent most?

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 35

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 28

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 18

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 17

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 8

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 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

Top 15 of 61 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Automotive Research & Testing Center's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Automotive Research & Testing Center's lead technology class is 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), 27.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #2,957 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Automotive Research & Testing Center against Swagelok Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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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