Where does Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc ranks #22,414 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc's Innovation Score?

Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc has an Innovation Score of 30.1 out of 100 (top 67% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc's patents?

Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc's patents average 11.3 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 Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc

Q: How many patents does Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc hold?

Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 13 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc focus on?

Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc's top technology area is 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) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc 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 - 12 granted patents across 13 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: 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 FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Continental ranks #22,414 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 13 technology areas.

#22,414
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 67%
by Innovation Score (30.1/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22414 · US Corporation #22,414 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,414/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Concordia University
CPC-FOCUS G07C · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Concordia University (±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
Continental Intellig… · this assignee

30
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Continental's Innovation Score is 30.1/100 (top 67% 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.

Where Continental's grants concentrate

Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under 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 FO). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Continental sits between Concordia University and Curio Holding Company.

Concordia Univers…

12
Concrete Countert…

12
Conectric

12
Confluent

12
Coresyte

12
Cottrell

12
Cranius

12
Curio Holding

12
Continental Intel… ◀

12

What this shows Continental holds 12 patents at rank #22,427, 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 #22,427 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (TIME OR Attendance Registers)

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

Continental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 Top 67% higher than 33% of 50,000 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 Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	16.7%
2017	3	25.0%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, Llc patent most?

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 11

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 11

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 7

G06Q - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 7

B60R - VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 6

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 5

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 3

H04M - TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION 2

A63F - CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

H04B - TRANSMISSION 1

G08C - TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS 1

G08G - TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS 1

G06K - GRAPHICAL DATA READING ; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,414

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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