Where does GM Cruise Holdings LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GM Cruise Holdings LLC ranks #654 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 GM Cruise Holdings LLC hold?

GM Cruise Holdings LLC holds 685 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 97 technology areas.

What is GM Cruise Holdings LLC's Innovation Score?

GM Cruise Holdings LLC has an Innovation Score of 78.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GM Cruise Holdings LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for GM Cruise Holdings LLC.

What does claim depth mean for GM Cruise Holdings LLC's patents?

GM Cruise Holdings LLC's patents average 18.5 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 GM Cruise Holdings 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

GM Cruise Holdings LLC

Q: What technology areas does GM Cruise Holdings LLC focus on?

GM Cruise Holdings LLC's top technology area is 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) with 287 patents, ranking #20 of 1,122 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 97 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 685 granted patents across 97 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GM ranks #654 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 685 patents across 97 technology areas.

#654
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.7/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R654 · US Corporation #654 · 685 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 685 grants
TOP-DECILE #654/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Brigham and…
CPC-WIDE B60W · 97 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, 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 GM’s 78.7 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 22.6 pts (29%) Velocity 20.0 pts (25%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Micron Technology · near

79
GM Cruise Holdings · this assignee

79
Comcast Cable… · near

79
Meta Platforms · near

79
Beijing BOE… · near

79
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GM's Innovation Score is 78.7/100 (top 1% 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 GM?

Each dot is one of GM’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). GM’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How GM's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 236 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 12. Lead class B60W accounts for 41.9% of the portfolio across 97 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (#650) and Bayer Healthcare LLC (#658).

GM's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GM Cruise Holdings LLC moved from 61 to 493 grants (8.08x 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 #14. See the growth leaderboard.

Carl Zeiss Meditec

689
Saturn Licensing

689
The Research Foun…

688
Evonik Degussa

686
The Brigham and W…

685
Yale University

685
GM Cruise Holdings ◀

685
Tianma Microelect…

684
Bayer Healthcare

681

What this shows GM holds 685 patents at rank #654, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GM

By rank, the assignees closest to #654 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GM, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), GM ranks #20 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (79 here).

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC 79 Meta Platforms, Inc. 79 Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd. 79 Micron Technology, Inc. 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

Micromass UK Limited 18.5 avg Ciena Corporation 18.5 avg Block, Inc. 18.5 avg Saint-gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. 18.5 avg

GM's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

79 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

GM Cruise Holdings LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	12	1.8%
2021	49	7.2%
2022	95	13.9%
2023	162	23.6%
2024	236	34.5%
2025partial year	131	19.1%

Which technologies does GM Cruise Holdings LLC patent most?

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 287

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 254

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 177

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 148

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 132

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 131

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 109

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 108

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 96

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 70

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 60

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 58

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 57

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 40

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 35

Top 15 of 97 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

GM Cruise Holdings LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GM Cruise Holdings LLC's lead technology class is 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), 41.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #654 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GM Cruise Holdings LLC against Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.7/100 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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