Where does Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG ranks #2,773 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 Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG holds 139 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 58.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 15.3 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 Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG 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

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is 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 ) with 79 patents, ranking #60 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 139 granted patents across 57 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kautex ranks #2,773 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 139 patents across 57 technology areas.

#2,773
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.3/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2773 · Foreign Corporation #2,773 · 139 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 139 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,773/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Creative Technology
CPC-WIDE B60K · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Creative Technology 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 Kautex’s 58.3 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 17.1 pts (29%) Velocity 7.0 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GE-Hitachi Nuclear… · near

58
Johnson & Johnson… · near

58
Kansas State… · near

58
Kautex Textron & KG · this assignee

58
Silicon Motion · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kautex's Innovation Score is 58.3/100 (top 5% 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 Kautex?

Each dot is one of Kautex’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). Kautex’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Kautex's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG received 58 grants versus 76 in 2015–2019 (-24% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 24 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 4. Lead class B60K accounts for 56.8% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Creative Technology Corporation (#2,770) and Pentair Water Pool and Spa, Inc. (#2,778).

Kautex's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG moved from 36 to 38 grants (1.06x 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 #1,052. See the growth leaderboard.

Creative Technolo…

139
Joby Aero

139
Japan Aerospace E…

139
Keihin

139
National Yang Min…

139
Nuovo Pignone Tec…

139
Nanjing Universit…

139
Pentair Water Poo…

139
Kautex Textron &… ◀

139

What this shows Kautex holds 139 patents at rank #2,774, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kautex

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,774 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kautex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Kautex ranks #60 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Kansas State University Research Foundation 58 GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC 58 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. 58 Silicon Motion, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

IMEC 15.3 avg Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH 15.3 avg Vale S.A. 15.3 avg Unilin Bvba 15.3 avg

Kautex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	6.5%
2016	4	2.9%
2017	23	16.5%
2018	24	17.3%
2019	16	11.5%
2020	11	7.9%
2021	9	6.5%
2022	12	8.6%
2023	12	8.6%
2024	14	10.1%
2025partial year	5	3.6%

Which technologies does Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

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 79

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 54

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 45

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 31

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 23

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 21

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 20

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 16

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 13

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 9

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 9

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

Top 15 of 57 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

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 56.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #2,773 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG against Creative Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.3/100 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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