Where does Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH ranks #3,063 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 Technologies GmbH hold?

Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH holds 124 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH's Innovation Score?

Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH has an Innovation Score of 69.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH.

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

Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH's patents average 12.7 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 Foreign Corporation

Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH focus on?

Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH's top technology area 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 Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes) with 25 patents. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH 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 - 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Zoom Video Communica… · near

69
Korea Advanced… · near

69
Continental Automotive · this assignee

69
Nokia Solutions AND… · near

69
BIC Violex Single… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

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.

Bfly Operations

124
Biamp Systems

124
Chung ANG Univers…

124
Current Lighting…

124
Coupa Software In…

124
DDP Specialty Mat…

124
Dorel Juvenile Gr…

124
GC

124
Continental Autom… ◀

124

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.

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).

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

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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?

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 25

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

H04B - Transmission 11

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 11

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 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

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 9

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 8

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 7

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 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 6

F16H - Gearing 6

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

Top 15 of 80 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,063

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

69.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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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