Where does Bentley Motors Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bentley Motors Limited ranks #3,617 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 Bentley Motors Limited hold?

Bentley Motors Limited holds 101 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Bentley Motors Limited's Innovation Score?

Bentley Motors Limited has an Innovation Score of 47.2 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bentley Motors Limited focus on?

Bentley Motors Limited's top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 13 patents, ranking #292 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bentley Motors Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bentley Motors Limited's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Bentley Motors Limited's patents?

Bentley Motors Limited's patents average 7.0 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 Bentley Motors Limited 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

Bentley Motors Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 41 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bentley ranks #3,617 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 41 technology areas.

#3,617
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.2/100): 7.0
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3617 · Foreign Corporation #3,617 · 101 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 101 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,617/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amsted Rail
CPC-WIDE B60R · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amsted Rail Company, 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 Bentley’s 47.2 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 16.0 pts (34%) Velocity 4.4 pts (9%) Breadth 22.6 pts (48%) Claim depth 4.2 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bentley Motors · this assignee

47
Dejero Labs · near

47
Foshan Nationstar… · near

47
Innovium · near

47
Pelagic Concepts · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bentley's Innovation Score is 47.2/100 (top 19% 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 Bentley?

Each dot is one of Bentley’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). Bentley’s own 7.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bentley's grants concentrate

Bentley Motors Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 12.9% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (19 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Bentley sits between Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support and Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche.

Bentley's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bentley Motors Limited moved from 38 to 25 grants (0.66x 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 #2,285. See the growth leaderboard.

Veolia Water Solu…

102
Woojin Plastic

102
Wabash National

102
Amsted Rail

101
Ceraloc Innovatio…

101
Chang Chun Petroc…

101
Chimei

101
Consiglio Naziona…

101
Bentley Motors ◀

101

What this shows Bentley holds 101 patents at rank #3,617, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bentley

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,617 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bentley, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Bentley ranks #292 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Innovium, Inc. 47 Dejero Labs Inc. 47 Foshan Nationstar Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. 47 Pelagic Concepts LLC 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.0 here).

Shandong University OF Science AND Technology 7.0 avg Fujikoki Corporation 6.9 avg Nitta Corporation 6.9 avg Dai-ichi Seiko Co., Ltd. 6.9 avg

Bentley's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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Bentley Motors Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.0%
2016	6	5.9%
2017	13	12.9%
2018	12	11.9%
2019	19	18.8%
2020	9	8.9%
2021	10	9.9%
2022	10	9.9%
2023	6	5.9%
2024	9	8.9%
2025partial year	3	3.0%

Which technologies does Bentley Motors Limited patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

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 9

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 7

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

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 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

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 4

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 4

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 3

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 3

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 3

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 2

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 2

Top 15 of 41 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

Bentley Motors Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bentley Motors Limited's lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 12.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #3,617 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bentley Motors Limited against Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.2/100 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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