Where does Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. ranks #16,977 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 Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. hold?

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2023, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.'s Innovation Score?

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. has an Innovation Score of 42.1 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A..

What does claim depth mean for Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.'s patents?

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.'s patents average 18.6 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 Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.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

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.

Q: What technology areas does Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. focus on?

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.'s top technology area is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors) with 13 patents, ranking #131 of 1,094 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2023. 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: F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Marelli ranks #16,977 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 18 technology areas.

#16,977
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.1/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16977 · Foreign Corporation #16,977 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,977/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH M & C Innovations
CPC-FOCUS F21S · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2023 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: M & C Innovations, LLC (±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 Marelli’s 42.1 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 10.0 pts (24%) Velocity 5.9 pts (14%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Marelli Automotive… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Marelli's Innovation Score is 42.1/100 (top 31% 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 Marelli?

Each dot is one of Marelli’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). Marelli’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Marelli's grants concentrate

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2021. By volume, Marelli sits between M & C Innovations, LLC and Medimaging Integrated Solution, Inc..

Marelli's three-year grant acceleration

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

M & C Innovations

17
M3 Technology

17
Mace Group

17
Madi

17
MAX Interactive

17
Maxon Motor

17
MCM Global

17
Medimaging Integr…

17
Marelli Automotiv… ◀

17

What this shows Marelli holds 17 patents at rank #16,972, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Marelli

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,972 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices)

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

Marelli's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2023

Grants by year

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

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Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	6	35.3%
2021	3	17.6%
2022	4	23.5%
2023	4	23.5%

Which technologies does Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. patent most?

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 13

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

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 4

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

H03F - Amplifiers 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A.'s lead technology class is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21S
Ranked #16,977 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. against M & C Innovations, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.1/100 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

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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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