Where does Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. ranks #28,300 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 Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. hold?

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s Innovation Score?

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. has an Innovation Score of 31.3 out of 100 (37th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s patents?

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s patents average 13.8 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 Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. 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

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.

Q: What technology areas does Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. focus on?

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s top technology area is 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) with 6 patents, ranking #148 of 729 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: 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, Detail).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brose ranks #28,300 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 15 technology areas.

#28,300
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 37th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.3/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28300 · Foreign Corporation #28,300 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,300/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brighten Optix
CPC-FOCUS E05Y · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brighten Optix Corp. (±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 Brose’s 31.3 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 8.0 pts (26%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 13.7 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Brose Fahrzeugteile & · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Brose's Innovation Score is 31.3/100 (37th percentile 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 Brose?

Each dot is one of Brose’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). Brose’s own 13.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Brose's grants concentrate

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under 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, Detail). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Brose sits between Brighten Optix Corp. and Buddhist TZU CHI Medical Foundation.

Brose's three-year grant acceleration

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Brighten Optix

9
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9
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9
Brokk Aktiebolag

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9

What this shows Brose holds 9 patents at rank #28,241, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brose

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,241 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E05Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f)

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

Brose's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 37th percentile higher than 37% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	22.2%
2018	1	11.1%
2020	2	22.2%
2021	3	33.3%
2023	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. patent most?

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 6

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 6

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 1

F16H - Gearing 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 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

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 1

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

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 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 1

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 1

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co.'s lead technology class is 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, Detail), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E05Y
Ranked #28,300 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. against Brighten Optix Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.