Where does Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. ranks #6,427 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 Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. hold?

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. has an Innovation Score of 44.2 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. focus on?

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 47 patents, ranking #95 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s recent grant velocity is +94% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s patents?

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s patents average 16.3 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.

How is the Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. 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

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dalphi ranks #6,427 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 8 technology areas.

#6,427
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.2/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6427 · Foreign Corporation #6,427 · 52 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,427/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CertainTeed Gypsum
CPC-NARROW B60R · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CertainTeed Gypsum, 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 Dalphi’s 44.2 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 13.7 pts (31%) Velocity 10.7 pts (24%) Breadth 10.0 pts (23%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arcsoft · near

44
Dalphi Metal Espana · this assignee

44
MANN+HUMMEL Life… · near

44
Quantum Motion · near

44
Sierra Wireless · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dalphi's Innovation Score is 44.2/100 (top 26% 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 Dalphi?

Each dot is one of Dalphi’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). Dalphi’s own 16.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Dalphi's grants concentrate

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 90.4% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Dalphi sits between Cosmo OIL Co., Ltd. and Empower Semiconductor, Inc..

Dalphi's three-year grant acceleration

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. shows 24 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Cosmo OIL

52
CPA Pool Products

52
Certainteed Gypsum

52
DUO Security

52
Darktrace Holdings

52
Direct Pack

52
ETH ZËRICH

52
Empower Semicondu…

52
Dalphi Metal Espa… ◀

52

What this shows Dalphi holds 52 patents at rank #6,428, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dalphi

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,428 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dalphi, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Dalphi ranks #95 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Arcsoft Corporation Limited 44 MANN+HUMMEL Life Sciences & Environment Holding Singapore PTE. Ltd. 44 Quantum Motion Technologies Limited 44 Sierra Wireless, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Nico Corporation 16.3 avg Quanta Associates, L.P. 16.3 avg MannKind Corporation 16.3 avg Hitachi Energy Ltd 16.3 avg

Dalphi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	3.8%
2017	2	3.8%
2018	7	13.5%
2019	6	11.5%
2020	5	9.6%
2021	4	7.7%
2022	10	19.2%
2023	10	19.2%
2024	4	7.7%
2025partial year	2	3.8%

Which technologies does Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 47

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 11

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 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 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

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 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dalphi Metal Espana S.A.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 90.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #6,427 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dalphi Metal Espana S.A. against Cosmo OIL Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.2/100 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.

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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