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Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 124 granted patents across 80 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: 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 MO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Continental ranks #3,063 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 124 patents across 80 technology areas.

#3,063
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.3/100)
12.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3063 · Foreign Corporation #3,063 · 124 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MID 124 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #3,063/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bfly Operations
  • CPC-WIDE B60T · 80 areas
  • INNOV-STRONG 69.3/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bfly Operations, 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 69.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Continental

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Continental's Innovation Score is 69.3/100 (top 1% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

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 12.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 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. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 123.9124.0124.0124124.0124.0124.1 05101520 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Bfly Operations, Inc. - 124, 15.44Bfly OperationsBiamp Systems, LLC - 124, 16.06Biamp SystemsChung ANG University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation - 124, 10.82Chung ANG Univers…Current Lighting Solutions, LLC - 124, 15.42Current Lighting…Coupa Software Incorporated - 124, 18.08Coupa Software In…DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US, LLC. - 124, 10.96DDP Specialty Mat…Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. - 124, 18.73Dorel Juvenile Gr…GC Corporation - 124, 4.31GCContinental Automotive Technologies GmbH - 124, 12.69Continental Autom…
Continental vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Continental's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2022–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 45 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 2. Lead class B60T accounts for 20.2% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bfly Operations, Inc. (#3,060) and GC Corporation (#3,068).

Continental's three-year grant acceleration

Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH shows 54 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.

Who files at Continental's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Continental holds 124 patents at rank #3,064, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Continental

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,064 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof)

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 B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof), Continental ranks #49 of 539 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

Nokia Solutions AND Networks OY 69 Korea Advanced Institute OF Science AND Technology 69 Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 69 BIC Violex Single Member S.A. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Soclean, Inc. 12.7 avg King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology 12.7 avg Sivantos Pte. Ltd. 12.7 avg K&N Engineering, Inc. 12.7 avg

Continental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

020406080 2022202320242025 70
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2022 2 1.6%
2023 7 5.6%
2024 45 36.3%
2025partial year 70 56.5%

Which technologies does Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH patent most?

Top 15 of 80 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 Technologies GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH's lead technology class is 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 MO), 20.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60T
  • Ranked #3,063 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH against Bfly Operations, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 69.3/100 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

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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

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.