Where does ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH ranks #8,560 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 ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH hold?

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's Innovation Score?

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH has an Innovation Score of 48.2 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's recent grant velocity is +170% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's patents?

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's patents average 16.1 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 ContiTech Antriebssysteme 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

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH

Q: What technology areas does ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH focus on?

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's top technology area is F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor) with 28 patents, ranking #6 of 244 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Contitech ranks #8,560 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 27 technology areas.

#8,560
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.2/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +170%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8560 · Foreign Corporation #8,560 · 37 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,560/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Changchun Institute…
CPC-FOCUS F16G · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +170% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences (±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 Contitech’s 48.2 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 12.6 pts (26%) Velocity 7.6 pts (16%) Breadth 18.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amtrol Licensing · near

48
Bosch · near

48
ContiTech Antriebssy… · this assignee

48
Silanna Asia Pte · near

48
Soracom · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Contitech's Innovation Score is 48.2/100 (top 17% 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 Contitech?

Each dot is one of Contitech’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). Contitech’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Contitech vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Contitech's grants concentrate

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 75.7% of grants classified under F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Contitech sits between Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences and Cybernet Systems Corp..

Contitech's three-year grant acceleration

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Changchun Institu…

37
Charcoal Companion

37
Clariant Finance…

37
Consumer Safety T…

37
Core Scientific

37
Cornellcookson

37
Cummins Generator

37
Cybernet Systems

37
Contitech Antrieb… ◀

37

What this shows ContiTech holds 37 patents at rank #8,562, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ContiTech

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,562 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16G (Belts)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ContiTech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16G (Belts), ContiTech ranks #6 of 244 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Bosch Corporation 48 Amtrol Licensing Inc. 48 Soracom, Inc 48 Silanna Asia Pte Ltd 48

Contitech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	5.4%
2017	3	8.1%
2018	2	5.4%
2019	3	8.1%
2020	4	10.8%
2021	7	18.9%
2022	6	16.2%
2023	3	8.1%
2024	7	18.9%

Which technologies does ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH patent most?

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 28

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 16

F16H - Gearing 10

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 10

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 6

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 5

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 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 4

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 3

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

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 2

B66B - ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways 2

B30B - Presses IN General 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Top 15 of 27 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

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH's lead technology class is F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor), 75.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16G
Ranked #8,560 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH against Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.2/100 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

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