Where does Gentex Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gentex Corporation ranks #569 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 Gentex Corporation hold?

Gentex Corporation holds 790 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 133 technology areas.

What is Gentex Corporation's Innovation Score?

Gentex Corporation has an Innovation Score of 60.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gentex Corporation focus on?

Gentex Corporation's top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 273 patents, ranking #24 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 133 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gentex Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gentex Corporation's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Gentex Corporation's patents?

Gentex Corporation's patents average 14.2 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 Gentex Corporation 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

Gentex Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 790 granted patents across 133 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gentex ranks #569 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 790 patents across 133 technology areas.

#569
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.2/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R569 · US Corporation #569 · 790 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 790 grants
TOP-DECILE #569/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Yeti Coolers
CPC-WIDE B60R · 133 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Yeti Coolers, LLC (±1 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 Gentex’s 60.2 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 23.1 pts (38%) Velocity 3.6 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biotronik SE & KG · near

60
Gentex · this assignee

60
Lenzing Aktiengesell… · near

60
Sercel · near

60
Eastman Kodak · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gentex's Innovation Score is 60.2/100 (top 3% 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 Gentex?

Each dot is one of Gentex’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). Gentex’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Gentex's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Gentex Corporation received 347 grants versus 408 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 116 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 47. Lead class B60R accounts for 34.6% of the portfolio across 133 subclasses. Volume neighbours: ResMed Pty Ltd (#565) and STMicroelectronics International N.V. (#573).

Gentex's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gentex Corporation moved from 300 to 163 grants (0.54x 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 #2,585. See the growth leaderboard.

Resmed Pty

800
Wipro

794
Alcon

793
Bally Gaming

792
Gentex ◀

790
Yeti Coolers

789
Abbott Diabetes C…

788
Yokogawa Electric

788
Stmicroelectronic…

787

What this shows Gentex holds 790 patents at rank #569, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gentex

By rank, the assignees closest to #569 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gentex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Gentex ranks #24 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Sercel, Inc 60 Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft 60 Eastman Kodak Company 60 Biotronik SE & Co. KG 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation 14.2 avg Pall Corporation 14.2 avg Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum 14.2 avg SureFire, LLC 14.2 avg

Gentex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Gentex Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	56	7.1%
2016	65	8.2%
2017	84	10.6%
2018	87	11.0%
2019	116	14.7%
2020	103	13.0%
2021	81	10.3%
2022	65	8.2%
2023	47	5.9%
2024	51	6.5%
2025partial year	35	4.4%

Which technologies does Gentex Corporation patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 273

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 202

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 125

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 100

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 73

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 61

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 55

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 52

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 34

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 34

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 31

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 31

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 25

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 25

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 21

Top 15 of 133 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

Gentex Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gentex Corporation's lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 34.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #569 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gentex Corporation against ResMed Pty Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.2/100 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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