Where does Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH ranks #1,304 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 Reifen Deutschland GmbH hold?

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH holds 325 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 56.0 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%).

Is Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 Reifen Deutschland GmbH's patents?

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH's patents average 7.4 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 Reifen Deutschland 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH focus on?

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH's top technology area is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres) with 141 patents, ranking #9 of 319 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 325 granted patents across 56 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: B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Continental ranks #1,304 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 325 patents across 56 technology areas.

#1,304
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 7.4
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1304 · Foreign Corporation #1,304 · 325 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 325 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,304/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chugai Seiyaku
CPC-WIDE B60C · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 56.0 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 20.0 pts (36%) Velocity 6.6 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 4.4 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Conmed · near

56
Australian Nuclear… · near

56
Bar-Ilan University · near

56
Continental Reifen… · this assignee

56
SMR Patents S à r l · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Continental's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (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 7.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 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.

How Continental's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH received 138 grants versus 158 in 2015–2019 (-13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 43 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 21. Lead class B60C accounts for 43.4% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sick AG (#1,300) and PFU Limited (#1,308).

Continental's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH moved from 91 to 90 grants (0.99x 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 #1,215. See the growth leaderboard.

Sick

326
Sumitomo Riko

326
University OF Con…

326
Chugai Seiyaku

325
Sony Interactive…

325
Continental Reife… ◀

325
Ablic

324
Express Scripts S…

324
PFU

324

What this shows Continental holds 325 patents at rank #1,304, 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 #1,304 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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 B60C (Vehicle Tyres), Continental ranks #9 of 319 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Bar-Ilan University 56 Australian Nuclear Science AND Technology Organisation 56 Conmed Corporation 56 SMR Patents S.à.r.l. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.4 here).

Fujitsu Component Limited 7.4 avg Volvo Lastvagnar AB 7.4 avg RB Distribution, Inc. 7.4 avg Nanjing University OF Posts AND Telecommunications 7.4 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 Reifen Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	9.2%
2016	36	11.1%
2017	25	7.7%
2018	24	7.4%
2019	43	13.2%
2020	27	8.3%
2021	21	6.5%
2022	32	9.8%
2023	28	8.6%
2024	30	9.2%
2025partial year	29	8.9%

Which technologies does Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 141

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 43

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 41

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 35

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 34

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 23

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 18

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 13

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 12

C08C - Treatment OR Chemical Modification OF Rubbers 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 8

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 7

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 6

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 5

Top 15 of 56 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 Reifen Deutschland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres), 43.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #1,304 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH against Sick AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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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