Where does Lucas Automotive GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lucas Automotive GMBH ranks #3,630 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 Lucas Automotive GMBH hold?

Lucas Automotive GMBH holds 101 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Lucas Automotive GMBH's Innovation Score?

Lucas Automotive GMBH has an Innovation Score of 45.2 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lucas Automotive GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lucas Automotive GMBH's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Lucas Automotive GMBH's patents?

Lucas Automotive GMBH's patents average 15.4 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 Lucas Automotive 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

Lucas Automotive GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Lucas Automotive GMBH focus on?

Lucas Automotive GMBH's top technology area is B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes) with 69 patents, ranking #25 of 539 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lucas ranks #3,630 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 32 technology areas.

#3,630
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.2/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3630 · Foreign Corporation #3,630 · 101 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 101 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,630/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fameccanica Data S p A
CPC-FOCUS B60T · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. (±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 Lucas’s 45.2 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 16.0 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 20.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fyusion · near

45
Kids II · near

45
Lucas Automotive · this assignee

45
Rotoliptic Incorpora… · near

45
Rubicon Research PTY · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lucas's Innovation Score is 45.2/100 (top 24% 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 Lucas?

Each dot is one of Lucas’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). Lucas’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lucas's grants concentrate

Lucas Automotive GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 68.3% of grants classified under B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (23 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2021. By volume, Lucas sits between FCI Americas Technology LLC and Paige.AI, Inc..

FCI Americas Tech…

101
Fameccanica Data…

101
HM Clause

101
James Hardie Tech…

101
Lacrosse Footwear

101
Nanolumens Acquis…

101
Optum Services (I…

101
Paige AI

101
Lucas Automotive ◀

101

What this shows Lucas holds 101 patents at rank #3,629, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lucas

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,629 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lucas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof), Lucas ranks #25 of 539 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Kids II, Inc. 45 Fyusion, Inc. 45 Rubicon Research PTY Ltd 45 Rotoliptic Technologies Incorporated 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Egis Technology Inc. 15.4 avg Current Lighting Solutions, LLC 15.4 avg Etron Technology, Inc. 15.4 avg Cytiva Sweden AB 15.4 avg

Lucas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Lucas Automotive GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	15.8%
2016	17	16.8%
2017	16	15.8%
2018	17	16.8%
2019	23	22.8%
2020	9	8.9%
2021	3	3.0%

Which technologies does Lucas Automotive GMBH patent most?

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 69

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 37

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 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

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 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 4

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 3

F16H - Gearing 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

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 2

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

Top 15 of 32 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

Lucas Automotive GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lucas Automotive GMBH's lead technology class is B60T (Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted MO), 68.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60T
Ranked #3,630 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lucas Automotive GMBH against FCI Americas Technology LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.2/100 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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