Where does Continental Automotive France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continental Automotive France ranks #970 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 Automotive France hold?

Continental Automotive France holds 453 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 115 technology areas.

What is Continental Automotive France's Innovation Score?

Continental Automotive France has an Innovation Score of 56.4 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Continental Automotive France focus on?

Continental Automotive France's top technology area is F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines) with 89 patents, ranking #24 of 518 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 115 CPC subclasses total.

Is Continental Automotive France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Continental Automotive France's recent grant velocity is +3% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Continental Automotive France's patents?

Continental Automotive France's patents average 13.0 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 Continental Automotive France 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

Continental Automotive France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 453 granted patents across 115 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: F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Continental ranks #970 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 453 patents across 115 technology areas.

#970
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.4/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: +3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R970 · Foreign Corporation #970 · 453 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 453 grants
TOP-DECILE #970/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bombardier Recreatio…
CPC-WIDE F02D · 115 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bombardier Recreational Products 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 56.4 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 21.1 pts (37%) Velocity 2.4 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Conti Temic… · near

56
Continental… · this assignee

56
Illinois Institute… · near

56
Niantic · near

56
Toto · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Continental's Innovation Score is 56.4/100 (top 6% 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 13.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Continental's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Continental Automotive France received 229 grants versus 223 in 2015–2019 (+3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 93 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 7. Lead class F02D accounts for 19.6% of the portfolio across 115 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd. (#966) and Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation (#974).

Continental's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Continental Automotive France moved from 218 to 78 grants (0.36x 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 #2,936. See the growth leaderboard.

Hanwha Techwin

454
Invensas

454
Murata Machinery

454
Bombardier Recrea…

453
Hgst Netherlands…

453
Continental Autom… ◀

453
Toshiba Mitsubish…

452
Delphi

451
Commonwealth Scie…

450

What this shows Continental holds 453 patents at rank #970, 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 #970 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines)

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 F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines), Continental ranks #24 of 518 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH 56 Niantic, Inc. 56 Illinois Institute of Technology 56 Toto Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

Siemens Mobility GmbH 13.0 avg Idemia Identity & Security France 13.0 avg Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd. 13.0 avg LS Cable & System Ltd. 13.0 avg

Continental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Continental Automotive France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	6.0%
2016	30	6.6%
2017	52	11.5%
2018	47	10.4%
2019	67	14.8%
2020	93	20.5%
2021	58	12.8%
2022	56	12.4%
2023	15	3.3%
2024	7	1.5%
2025partial year	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Continental Automotive France patent most?

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 89

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 75

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 60

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 58

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 55

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 54

H04B - Transmission 51

H03K - Pulse Technique 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 43

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 40

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 33

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 31

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 28

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 26

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 26

Top 15 of 115 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 Automotive France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Continental Automotive France's lead technology class is F02D (Controlling Combustion Engines), 19.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02D
Ranked #970 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Continental Automotive France against Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.4/100 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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