Where does Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH ranks #1,333 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 Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH hold?

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH holds 317 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's Innovation Score?

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's patents?

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's patents average 17.5 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 Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH 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

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH focus on?

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 115 patents, ranking #39 of 1,513 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 317 granted patents across 65 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: H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Harman ranks #1,333 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 317 patents across 65 technology areas.

#1,333
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1333 · Foreign Corporation #1,333 · 317 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 317 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,333/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Genzyme
CPC-WIDE H04R · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Genzyme 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.

How Harman’s 59.6 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 19.9 pts (33%) Velocity 4.2 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Harman Becker… · this assignee

60
Palo Alto Networks · near

60
Preformed Line… · near

60
Syngenta Participati… · near

60
TPK Advanced Solutions · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Harman's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Harman?

Each dot is one of Harman’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). Harman’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Harman's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH received 100 grants versus 199 in 2015–2019 (-50% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 45 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 14. Lead class H04R accounts for 36.3% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kiekert AG (#1,329) and Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. (#1,337).

Harman's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH moved from 80 to 50 grants (0.63x 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 #2,379. See the growth leaderboard.

Kiekert

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R J Reynolds Toba…

319
THE Chemours FC

319
Genzyme

317
Massachusetts Mut…

317
Qisda

317
University of Kan…

317
Harman Becker Aut… ◀

317
Cummins Filtratio…

316

What this shows Harman holds 317 patents at rank #1,333, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Harman

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,333 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Harman, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04R (Loudspeakers), Harman ranks #39 of 1,513 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 60 Syngenta Participations AG 60 TPK Advanced Solutions Inc. 60 Preformed Line Products Co. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

Colorado State University Research Foundation 17.5 avg Magna Exteriors Inc. 17.5 avg R.P. Scherer Technologies, LLC 17.5 avg Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP 17.5 avg

Harman's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	44	13.9%
2016	41	12.9%
2017	45	14.2%
2018	39	12.3%
2019	30	9.5%
2020	25	7.9%
2021	25	7.9%
2022	22	6.9%
2023	14	4.4%
2024	14	4.4%
2025partial year	18	5.7%

Which technologies does Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 115

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 68

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 64

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 57

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 53

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 35

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 30

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 29

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 25

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 20

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 19

H03G - Control OF Amplification 19

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 18

H04M - Telephonic Communication 15

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 14

Top 15 of 65 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

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH's lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 36.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #1,333 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH against Kiekert AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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

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