Where does Continental Automotive Systems Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continental Automotive Systems Inc. ranks #700 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 Systems Inc. hold?

Continental Automotive Systems Inc. holds 648 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 155 technology areas.

What is Continental Automotive Systems Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Continental Automotive Systems Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Continental Automotive Systems Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Continental Automotive Systems 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 Automotive Systems Inc.'s patents?

Continental Automotive Systems Inc.'s patents average 14.5 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 Systems 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Continental Automotive Systems Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Continental Automotive Systems Inc. focus on?

Continental Automotive Systems Inc.'s top technology area is 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 ) with 91 patents, ranking #54 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 155 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 648 granted patents across 155 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Continental ranks #700 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 648 patents across 155 technology areas.

#700
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R700 · US Corporation #700 · 648 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 648 grants
TOP-DECILE #700/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Huawei Device
CPC-WIDE B60K · 155 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Huawei Device Co., Ltd. (±1 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 59.0 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 22.4 pts (38%) Velocity 2.9 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
PepsiCo · near

59
TE Connectivity · near

59
Continental… · this assignee

59
Knorr-bremse… · near

59
Wayne State University · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Continental's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% 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 14.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 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.

How Continental's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Continental Automotive Systems Inc. received 203 grants versus 432 in 2015–2019 (-53% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 119 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 17. Lead class B60K accounts for 14% of the portfolio across 155 subclasses. Volume neighbours: BYD Company Limited (#696) and GS Yuasa International Ltd. (#704).

Continental's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Continental Automotive Systems Inc. moved from 186 to 82 grants (0.44x 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 #2,810. See the growth leaderboard.

BYD

651
Time Warner Cable…

651
Huawei Device

649
Mitsui Chemicals

649
Continental Autom… ◀

648
City University O…

646
Goertek

646
Palo Alto Networks

646
GS Yuasa Internat…

645

What this shows Continental holds 648 patents at rank #700, 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 #700 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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 B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Continental ranks #54 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Knorr-bremse Systeme FÜR Schienenfahrzeuge GMBH 59 TE Connectivity Co. Ltd. 59 PepsiCo, Inc. 59 Wayne State University 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.5 here).

HL Mando Corporation 14.5 avg SL Corporation 14.5 avg Hongfujin Precision ELECTRONICS(TIANJIN)CO., Ltd. 14.5 avg Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation 14.5 avg

Continental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 Systems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	69	10.6%
2016	119	18.4%
2017	105	16.2%
2018	74	11.4%
2019	65	10.0%
2020	44	6.8%
2021	77	11.9%
2022	39	6.0%
2023	26	4.0%
2024	17	2.6%
2025partial year	13	2.0%

Which technologies does Continental Automotive Systems Inc. patent most?

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 91

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 75

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 73

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 56

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 54

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 53

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 49

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 45

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 45

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 41

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 41

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 40

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 40

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 40

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 35

Top 15 of 155 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Continental Automotive Systems Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Continental Automotive Systems Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 14% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #700 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Continental Automotive Systems Inc. against BYD Company Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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.

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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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