Where does Lear Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lear Corporation ranks #524 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 Lear Corporation hold?

Lear Corporation holds 858 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 159 technology areas.

What is Lear Corporation's Innovation Score?

Lear Corporation has an Innovation Score of 63.8 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lear Corporation focus on?

Lear Corporation's top technology area is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 401 patents, ranking #5 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 159 CPC subclasses total.

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

Lear Corporation's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Lear Corporation's patents?

Lear Corporation's patents average 17.4 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 Lear 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

Lear Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 858 granted patents across 159 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: B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lear ranks #524 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 858 patents across 159 technology areas.

#524
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.8/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R524 · US Corporation #524 · 858 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 858 grants
TOP-DECILE #524/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Coretronic
CPC-WIDE B60N · 159 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Coretronic 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 Lear’s 63.8 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 23.3 pts (37%) Velocity 5.0 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gambro Lundia AB · near

64
Lear · this assignee

64
Nanning FuLian… · near

64
Schlage Lock · near

64
University of… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lear's Innovation Score is 63.8/100 (top 2% 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 Lear?

Each dot is one of Lear’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). Lear’s own 17.4 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.

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

How Lear's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lear Corporation received 403 grants versus 404 in 2015–2019 (+0% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 103 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 64. Lead class B60N accounts for 46.7% of the portfolio across 159 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited (#520) and Philips Lighting Holding B.V. (#528).

Lear's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lear Corporation moved from 287 to 217 grants (0.76x 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 #1,973. See the growth leaderboard.

Avago Internation…

864
Zebra

863
Sharkninja Operat…

862
Coretronic

858
Lear ◀

858
Cable Television…

857
Case Western Rese…

856
W L Gore & Associ…

856
Philips Lighting…

855

What this shows Lear holds 858 patents at rank #524, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lear

By rank, the assignees closest to #524 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lear, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles), Lear ranks #5 of 645 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

University of Southern California 64 Schlage Lock Company LLC 64 Gambro Lundia AB 64 Nanning FuLian FuGui Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Regents of the University of Minnesota 17.4 avg TPK Touch Solutions (XIAMEN) Inc. 17.4 avg TPK Advanced Solutions Inc. 17.4 avg Chevron U.S.A. Inc. 17.4 avg

Lear's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Lear Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	77	9.0%
2016	84	9.8%
2017	71	8.3%
2018	71	8.3%
2019	101	11.8%
2020	103	12.0%
2021	83	9.7%
2022	78	9.1%
2023	75	8.7%
2024	64	7.5%
2025partial year	51	5.9%

Which technologies does Lear Corporation patent most?

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 401

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 185

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 140

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 92

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 87

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 64

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 52

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 48

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 41

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 32

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 31

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 26

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 25

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 25

Top 15 of 159 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

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

Lear Corporation's lead technology class is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 46.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60N
Ranked #524 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lear Corporation against Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.8/100 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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