Where does FCA Italy S.p.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FCA Italy S.p.A. ranks #3,653 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 FCA Italy S.p.A. hold?

FCA Italy S.p.A. holds 100 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is FCA Italy S.p.A.'s Innovation Score?

FCA Italy S.p.A. has an Innovation Score of 50.7 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does FCA Italy S.p.A. focus on?

FCA Italy S.p.A.'s top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 20 patents. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

Is FCA Italy S.p.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FCA Italy S.p.A.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 FCA Italy S.p.A.'s patents?

FCA Italy S.p.A.'s patents average 7.1 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 FCA Italy S.p.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

FCA Italy S.p.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 100 granted patents across 59 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, FCA ranks #3,653 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 100 patents across 59 technology areas.

#3,653
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.7/100): 7.1
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3653 · Foreign Corporation #3,653 · 100 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 100 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,653/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arconic
CPC-WIDE B62D · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arconic Corporation (±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
Brightz · near

51
FCA Italy S p A · this assignee

51
iHeart Media… · near

51
Piamond · near

51
Xylem Europe · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows FCA's Innovation Score is 50.7/100 (top 13% 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 FCA's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, FCA Italy S.p.A. received 43 grants versus 57 in 2015–2019 (-25% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 33 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 5. Lead class B62D accounts for 20% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Arconic Corporation (#3,649) and Kingston Digital, Inc. (#3,657).

FCA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, FCA Italy S.p.A. moved from 29 to 24 grants (0.83x 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 #1,729. See the growth leaderboard.

Arconic

100
Biomet 3i

100
Casio Keisanki

100
Chargepoint

100
Forescout

100
GE Healthcare

100
Huawei Canada

100
Kingston Digital

100
FCA Italy S p A ◀

100

What this shows FCA holds 100 patents at rank #3,653, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FCA

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,653 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FCA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

iHeart Media Management Services, Inc. 51 Brightz, Ltd. 51 Xylem Europe GmbH 51 Piamond Corp. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.1 here).

Tower Manufacturing Corp. 7.1 avg Linak A/S 7.1 avg Harbin Engineering University 7.1 avg Koganei Corporation 7.1 avg

FCA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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FCA Italy S.p.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	6.0%
2017	33	33.0%
2018	8	8.0%
2019	10	10.0%
2020	11	11.0%
2021	8	8.0%
2022	9	9.0%
2023	10	10.0%
2024	5	5.0%

Which technologies does FCA Italy S.p.A. patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 20

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

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 14

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 11

F16H - Gearing 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 7

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 5

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 5

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 4

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 4

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 3

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 3

Top 15 of 59 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,653

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.7 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

FCA Italy S.p.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FCA Italy S.p.A.'s lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #3,653 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FCA Italy S.p.A. against Arconic Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.7/100 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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