Where does Mahle Metal Leve S/a rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mahle Metal Leve S/a ranks #5,777 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Mahle Metal Leve S/a hold?

Mahle Metal Leve S/a holds 59 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Mahle Metal Leve S/a's Innovation Score?

Mahle Metal Leve S/a has an Innovation Score of 45.5 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mahle Metal Leve S/a's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mahle Metal Leve S/a's recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Mahle Metal Leve S/a's patents?

Mahle Metal Leve S/a's patents average 17.1 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 Mahle Metal Leve S/a 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

Mahle Metal Leve S/a

Q: What technology areas does Mahle Metal Leve S/a focus on?

Mahle Metal Leve S/a's top technology area is C23C (COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL) with 30 patents. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 59 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: C23C (COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAP).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mahle ranks #5,777 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 59 patents across 34 technology areas.

#5,777
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.5/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5777 · Foreign Corporation #5,777 · 59 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 59 grants
UPPER-Q #5,777/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Honda Lock
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BASF Agricultural So… · near

46
Grow Solutions Tech · near

46
Lite-on Singapore PTE · near

46
Mahle Metal Leve S/a · this assignee

46
Polyplastics · near

46
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Mahle Metal Leve S/a stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #5,777 of 50,000; Innovation Score 45.5/100 sits in the top 23% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Mahle Metal Leve S/a has been granted 59 US utility patents between 2015 and 2024, placing Mahle Metal Leve S/a at #5,777 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 34 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 17.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in C23C (COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAP). As a Foreign Corporation, Mahle Metal Leve S/a is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Mahle sits between Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock (59 patents, rank #5,774) and Oncomed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (59 patents, rank #5,782) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 45.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 13 grants, compared with 46 in the 2015–2019 window, a -72% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Mahle Metal Leve S/a's 17.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 34 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Honda Lock

59
Kyung Chang Indus…

59
LVMH Swiss Manufa…

59
MD Elektronik

59
Microfabrica

59
NR Engineering

59
Nomura Research I…

59
Oncomed Pharmaceu…

59
Mahle Metal Leve… ◀

59

What this shows Mahle holds 59 patents at rank #5,778, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mahle

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,778 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mahle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Polyplastics Co., Ltd. 46 Grow Solutions Tech Llc 46 BASF Agricultural Solutions Seed US Llc 46 Lite-on Singapore PTE. Ltd. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Colorado School Of Mines 17.1 avg New Jersey Institute Of Technology 17.1 avg Texas TECH University System 17.1 avg IGT 17.1 avg

Mahle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Mahle Metal Leve S/a patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	10.2%
2016	2	3.4%
2017	17	28.8%
2018	5	8.5%
2019	16	27.1%
2020	8	13.6%
2021	3	5.1%
2024	2	3.4%

Which technologies does Mahle Metal Leve S/a patent most?

C23C - COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL 30

F16J - PISTONS ; CYLINDERS; SEALINGS 28

F02F - CYLINDERS, PISTONS OR CASINGS, FOR COMBUSTION ENGINES; ARRANGEMENTS OF SEALINGS IN COMBUSTION ENGINES 10

F16C - SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS 8

F02M - SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF 4

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 4

C22C - ALLOYS 3

F01L - CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES 3

F02B - INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL 3

B01D - SEPARATION 3

F28D - HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT 3

F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION 3

F01P - COOLING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; COOLING OF INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES 3

F01M - LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING 3

C21D - MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING 2

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,777

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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