Where does Motional AD LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Motional AD LLC ranks #1,350 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 Motional AD LLC hold?

Motional AD LLC holds 312 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Motional AD LLC's Innovation Score?

Motional AD LLC has an Innovation Score of 77.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Motional AD LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Motional AD LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Motional AD LLC's patents?

Motional AD LLC's patents average 21.0 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 Motional AD LLC 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

Motional AD LLC

Q: What technology areas does Motional AD LLC focus on?

Motional AD LLC's top technology area is 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) with 164 patents, ranking #38 of 1,122 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 312 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Motional ranks #1,350 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 312 patents across 59 technology areas.

#1,350
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (77.4/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1350 · US Corporation #1,350 · 312 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 312 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,350/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Global Tel*Link
CPC-WIDE B60W · 59 areas
INNOV-STRONG 77.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Global Tel*Link 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 Motional’s 77.4 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 19.8 pts (26%) Velocity 20.0 pts (26%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adeia Guides · near

78
Motional AD · this assignee

77
Intel · near

77
Beta AIR · near

77
Google · near

77
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Motional's Innovation Score is 77.4/100 (top 1% 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 Motional?

Each dot is one of Motional’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). Motional’s own 21.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Motional's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 85 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 5. Lead class B60W accounts for 52.6% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hisense USA Corporation (#1,346) and Cheil Industries Inc. (#1,354).

Motional's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Motional AD LLC moved from 40 to 217 grants (5.42x 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 #25. See the growth leaderboard.

Hisense USA

313
Hong Kong Applied…

313
Sumitomo Osaka Ce…

313
Global Tel*Link

312
Motional AD ◀

312
Mitsubishi Heavy…

311
Marvell Israel (M…

311
CGG Services SAS

310
Cheil Industries

310

What this shows Motional holds 312 patents at rank #1,350, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Motional

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,350 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Motional, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60W (Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type O…), Motional ranks #38 of 1,122 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (77 here).

Intel Corporation 77 Beta AIR LLC 77 Google LLC 77 Adeia Guides Inc. 78

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.0 here).

Avast Software s.r.o. 21.0 avg Securus Technologies, LLC 21.0 avg W.L. Gore & Associates GmbH 21.0 avg Trisa Holding AG 21.0 avg

Motional's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

77 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Motional AD LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	5	1.6%
2021	35	11.2%
2022	49	15.7%
2023	83	26.6%
2024	85	27.2%
2025partial year	55	17.6%

Which technologies does Motional AD LLC patent most?

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 164

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 110

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 105

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 95

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 68

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 66

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 65

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 63

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 57

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 17

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 15

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 14

Top 15 of 59 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

Motional AD LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Motional AD LLC's lead technology class is 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), 52.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60W
Ranked #1,350 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Motional AD LLC against Hisense USA Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 77.4/100 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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