Where does Cariad SE rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cariad SE ranks #22,341 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 Cariad SE hold?

Cariad SE holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Cariad SE's Innovation Score?

Cariad SE has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cariad SE's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Cariad SE.

What does claim depth mean for Cariad SE's patents?

Cariad SE's patents average 14.6 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 Cariad SE 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

Cariad SE

Q: What technology areas does Cariad SE focus on?

Cariad SE's top technology area is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry) with 4 patents, ranking #558 of 1,814 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cariad ranks #22,341 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 16 technology areas.

#22,341
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22341 · Foreign Corporation #22,341 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,341/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canny Systems
CPC-FOCUS G01C · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canny Systems, LLC (±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 Cariad’s 51.8 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 8.9 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 14.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sumitomo Electric… · near

52
Yakult Honsha · near

52
Cariad SE · this assignee

52
The United States… · near

52
Xiamen Lota… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cariad's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 Cariad?

Each dot is one of Cariad’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). Cariad’s own 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cariad's grants concentrate

Cariad SE is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Cariad sits between Canny Systems, LLC and Ceek Women's Health, Inc..

Cariad's three-year grant acceleration

Cariad SE shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Canny Systems

12
Carbonxt

12
Cardiac Success

12
Caremed Supply

12
Carthera

12
CCC Intelligent S…

12
CE Lighting

12
Ceek Women's Heal…

12
Cariad SE ◀

12

What this shows Cariad holds 12 patents at rank #22,336, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cariad

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,336 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01C (Measuring Distances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cariad, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01C (Measuring Distances), Cariad ranks #558 of 1,814 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Xiamen Lota International Co., Ltd. 52 The United States of America, as represented by Secretary of the Navy 52 Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co., Ltd. 52 Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha 52

Cariad's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cariad SE patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	1	8.3%
2024	5	41.7%
2025partial year	6	50.0%

Which technologies does Cariad SE patent most?

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

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 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

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 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 1

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Cariad SE's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cariad SE's lead technology class is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01C
Ranked #22,341 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cariad SE against Canny Systems, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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.