Where does GM Global Technology Operations LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GM Global Technology Operations LLC ranks #28 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 Global Technology Operations LLC hold?

GM Global Technology Operations LLC holds 11,736 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 350 technology areas.

What is GM Global Technology Operations LLC's Innovation Score?

GM Global Technology Operations LLC has an Innovation Score of 71.5 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%).

What technology areas does GM Global Technology Operations LLC focus on?

GM Global Technology Operations LLC's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 1,841 patents, ranking #5 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 350 CPC subclasses total.

Is GM Global Technology Operations LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GM Global Technology Operations LLC's recent grant velocity is -34% 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 GM Global Technology Operations LLC's patents?

GM Global Technology Operations LLC's patents average 14.6 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 Global Technology Operations 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 Global Technology Operations LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11,736 granted patents across 350 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GM ranks #28 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11,736 patents across 350 technology areas.

#28
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.5/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: -34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28 · US Corporation #28 · 11,736 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 12K grants
TOP-DECILE #28/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Robert Bosch
CPC-BROAD Y02T · 350 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Robert Bosch GmbH (±133 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 71.5 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 32.4 pts (45%) Velocity 5.4 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Align Technology · near

72
SAP SE · near

72
Guangdong Oppo… · near

72
GM Global Technology… · this assignee

72
T-Mobile USA · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GM's Innovation Score is 71.5/100 (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 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 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

Between 2020–2024, GM Global Technology Operations LLC received 4,335 grants versus 6,586 in 2015–2019 (-34% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 1,563 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 766. Lead class Y02T accounts for 15.7% of the portfolio across 350 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (#24) and Dell Products L.P. (#32).

GM's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GM Global Technology Operations LLC moved from 3,255 to 2,643 grants (0.81x 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 #1,802. See the growth leaderboard.

Toshiba

12,848
Honda Motor

12,454
The Boeing

11,922
Robert Bosch

11,869
GM Global Technol… ◀

11,736
Nike

10,487
Cisco Technology

10,299
Ricoh

10,223
Dell Products

10,222

What this shows GM holds 11,736 patents at rank #28, 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 #28 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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 Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), GM ranks #5 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. 72 T-Mobile USA, Inc. 72 SAP SE 72 Align Technology, Inc. 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.6 here).

Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd. 14.6 avg Watts Regulator Co. 14.6 avg Whirlpool Corporation 14.6 avg Borealis AG 14.6 avg

GM's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

GM Global Technology Operations LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,381	11.8%
2016	1,187	10.1%
2017	1,250	10.7%
2018	1,205	10.3%
2019	1,563	13.3%
2020	866	7.4%
2021	826	7.0%
2022	766	6.5%
2023	825	7.0%
2024	1,052	9.0%
2025partial year	815	6.9%

Which technologies does GM Global Technology Operations LLC patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1,841

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 1,280

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1,072

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1,056

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1,029

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 836

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 744

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 744

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 732

F16H - Gearing 705

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 493

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 485

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 468

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 465

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 432

Top 15 of 350 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 Global Technology Operations LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GM Global Technology Operations LLC's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 15.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #28 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GM Global Technology Operations LLC against Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.5/100 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

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