Where does General Motors LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), General Motors LLC ranks #1,794 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 General Motors LLC hold?

General Motors LLC holds 227 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is General Motors LLC's Innovation Score?

General Motors LLC has an Innovation Score of 54.5 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does General Motors LLC focus on?

General Motors LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 98 patents, ranking #203 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

Is General Motors LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

General Motors LLC's recent grant velocity is -91% 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 General Motors LLC's patents?

General Motors LLC's patents average 15.8 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 General Motors 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

General Motors LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 227 granted patents across 61 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, General ranks #1,794 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 227 patents across 61 technology areas.

#1,794
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.5/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1794 · US Corporation #1,794 · 227 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 227 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,794/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Business Objects…
CPC-WIDE H04W · 61 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Business Objects Software Ltd. (±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 General’s 54.5 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 18.8 pts (34%) Velocity 1.3 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intermolecular · near

55
CompoSecure · near

55
General Motors · this assignee

55
Celgene · near

54
Ziehl-abegg SE · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 54.5/100 (top 8% 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 General?

Each dot is one of General’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). General’s own 15.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How General's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, General Motors LLC received 19 grants versus 208 in 2015–2019 (-91% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 61 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class H04W accounts for 43.2% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Business Objects Software Ltd. (#1,791) and Nasdaq, Inc. (#1,799).

General's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, General Motors LLC moved from 32 to 6 grants (0.19x 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 #3,106. See the growth leaderboard.

Business Objects…

227
Exedy

227
Flooring Industie…

227
Grammer

227
Lattice Semicondu…

227
Modernatx

227
Ningbo Sunny Opot…

227
Nasdaq

227
General Motors ◀

227

What this shows General holds 227 patents at rank #1,795, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,795 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for General, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), General ranks #203 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

CompoSecure, LLC 55 Intermolecular, Inc. 55 Celgene Corporation 54 Ziehl-abegg SE 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 15.8 avg Eastman Kodak Company 15.8 avg Office National D'etudes ET DE Recherches AÉROSPATIALES 15.8 avg JNC Petrochemical Corporation 15.8 avg

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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General Motors LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	61	26.9%
2016	60	26.4%
2017	38	16.7%
2018	30	13.2%
2019	19	8.4%
2020	9	4.0%
2021	4	1.8%
2022	2	0.9%
2023	3	1.3%
2024	1	0.4%

Which technologies does General Motors LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 98

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 62

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 40

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

H04M - Telephonic Communication 25

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 25

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 25

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

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 17

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 15

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 15

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

H04B - Transmission 9

Top 15 of 61 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

General Motors LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

General Motors LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 43.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,794 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare General Motors LLC against Business Objects Software Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.