Where does Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH ranks #1,908 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 Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH hold?

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH holds 210 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's Innovation Score?

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH focus on?

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 59 patents, ranking #65 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Is Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's patents?

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's patents average 14.3 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 Benteler Automobiltechnik 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

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 210 granted patents across 65 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Benteler ranks #1,908 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 210 patents across 65 technology areas.

#1,908
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1908 · Foreign Corporation #1,908 · 210 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 210 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,908/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atlassian US
CPC-WIDE B62D · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atlassian US, 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 Benteler’s 57.3 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 18.5 pts (32%) Velocity 5.3 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Benteler Automobilte… · this assignee

57
EMC · near

57
Navico Holding AS · near

57
THE University OF… · near

57
Wayne Fueling Systems · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Benteler's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% 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 Benteler?

Each dot is one of Benteler’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). Benteler’s own 14.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Benteler's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH received 93 grants versus 110 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 12. Lead class B62D accounts for 28.1% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sun Chemical Corporation (#1,903) and Hitachi High-tech Science Corporation (#1,911).

Benteler's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH moved from 68 to 54 grants (0.79x 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 #1,862. See the growth leaderboard.

Sun Chemical

211
Westinghouse Air…

211
Xyzprinting

211
Atlassian US

210
Baylor College of…

210
CPS Technology Ho…

210
Dow Corning

210
Hitachi High-tech…

210
Benteler Automobi… ◀

210

What this shows Benteler holds 210 patents at rank #1,907, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Benteler

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,907 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Benteler, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B62D (Motor Vehicles), Benteler ranks #65 of 1,368 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Navico Holding AS 57 THE University OF Akron 57 Wayne Fueling Systems LLC 57 EMC Corporation 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

AutoStore Technology AS 14.3 avg Medipal Holdings Corporation 14.3 avg Fluke Corporation 14.3 avg Stepan Company 14.3 avg

Benteler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	5.7%
2016	24	11.4%
2017	19	9.0%
2018	26	12.4%
2019	29	13.8%
2020	16	7.6%
2021	23	11.0%
2022	22	10.5%
2023	20	9.5%
2024	12	5.7%
2025partial year	7	3.3%

Which technologies does Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 59

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 48

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 45

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 36

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 29

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 26

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 21

C22C - Alloys 19

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 19

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 17

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 17

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 15

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 15

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

Top 15 of 65 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

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH's lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 28.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #1,908 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH against Sun Chemical Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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