Where does Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. ranks #11,977 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 Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. hold?

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.4 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s patents?

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s patents average 21.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. focus on?

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 24 patents, ranking #257 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Continental ranks #11,977 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 23 technology areas.

#11,977
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.4/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11977 · US Corporation #11,977 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,977/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Claret Medical
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Claret Medical, 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 Continental’s 41.4 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 11.3 pts (27%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 17.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Altor Bioscience · near

41
Armament Systems… · near

41
Continental… · this assignee

41
Kolmar Korea · near

41
Nexus Photonics · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Continental's Innovation Score is 41.4/100 (top 33% 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 Continental?

Each dot is one of Continental’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). Continental’s own 21.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Continental's grants concentrate

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 96% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Continental sits between Claret Medical, Inc. and Dana TM4 Inc..

Continental's three-year grant acceleration

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Claret Medical

25
Clean Diesel

25
Cleveland State U…

25
Consort Medical

25
Cree Fayetteville

25
Croda

25
Cytosorbents

25
Dana TM4

25
Continental Advan… ◀

25

What this shows Continental holds 25 patents at rank #11,979, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Continental

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,979 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Continental, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Continental ranks #257 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Kolmar Korea Co., Ltd. 41 Armament Systems and Procedures, Inc. 41 Nexus Photonics, Inc 41 Altor Bioscience LLC 41

Continental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	12.0%
2017	4	16.0%
2018	4	16.0%
2019	6	24.0%
2020	5	20.0%
2021	2	8.0%
2022	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. patent most?

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 24

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

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 5

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 3

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 3

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 2

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

Top 15 of 23 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

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Arra), 96% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #11,977 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, Inc. against Claret Medical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.4/100 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

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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