Where does Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH ranks #6,417 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 Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH hold?

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's Innovation Score?

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's patents?

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's patents average 11.0 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 Behr-hella Thermocontrol 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

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH focus on?

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's top technology area is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply ) with 32 patents. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 40 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: B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Behr-hella ranks #6,417 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 40 technology areas.

#6,417
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6417 · Foreign Corporation #6,417 · 52 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,417/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alcoa
CPC-WIDE B60K · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alcoa 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Atonarp · near

49
Behr-hella Thermocon… · this assignee

49
Belden · near

49
Cataler · near

49
Insightec · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Behr-hella's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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.

Where Behr-hella's grants concentrate

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 61.5% of grants classified under B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Behr-hella sits between Alcoa Inc. and Cameron Solutions, Inc..

Behr-hella's three-year grant acceleration

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Alcoa

52
Arcsoft

52
Autolus

52
Barnett Outdoors

52
BSN Medical

52
Bettcher Industri…

52
Biocon

52
Cameron Solutions

52
Behr-hella Thermo… ◀

52

What this shows Behr-hella holds 52 patents at rank #6,417, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Behr-hella

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,417 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Behr-hella's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Atonarp Inc. 49 Cataler Corporation 49 Belden Inc. 49 Insightec Ltd. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg NeoMed, Inc. 11.0 avg Central South University 11.0 avg Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg

Behr-hella's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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.

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Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.9%
2016	4	7.7%
2017	9	17.3%
2018	3	5.8%
2019	7	13.5%
2020	6	11.5%
2021	4	7.7%
2022	5	9.6%
2023	5	9.6%
2024	7	13.5%
2025partial year	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH patent most?

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 32

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

H03K - Pulse Technique 19

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 12

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 11

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

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 6

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

F16H - Gearing 2

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 2

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Top 15 of 40 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,417

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.4 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

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH's lead technology class is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb), 61.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #6,417 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Behr-hella Thermocontrol GMBH against Alcoa Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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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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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