Where does Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. ranks #991 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 Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. hold?

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. holds 445 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. focus on?

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s top technology area is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State) with 219 patents, ranking #4 of 946 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is +34% 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 Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s patents?

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s patents average 15.7 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 Pirelli Tyre 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

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 445 granted patents across 57 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: B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pirelli ranks #991 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 445 patents across 57 technology areas.

#991
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R991 · Foreign Corporation #991 · 445 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 445 grants
TOP-DECILE #991/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nissan Chemical…
CPC-WIDE B29D · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. (±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 Pirelli’s 59.7 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 21.1 pts (35%) Velocity 4.2 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Academia Sinica · near

60
Auris Health · near

60
Pirelli Tyre S P A · this assignee

60
Gpcp IP Holdings · near

60
Johnson Matthey Public · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pirelli's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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 Pirelli?

Each dot is one of Pirelli’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). Pirelli’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Pirelli's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. received 237 grants versus 177 in 2015–2019 (+34% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 73 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 27. Lead class B29D accounts for 49.2% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc. (#987) and Crestron Electronics, Inc. (#995).

Pirelli's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. moved from 176 to 112 grants (0.64x 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 #2,346. See the growth leaderboard.

RAI Strategic Hol…

446
Spectrum Diversif…

446
The Charles Stark…

446
Nissan Chemical I…

445
Pirelli Tyre S P A ◀

445
University OF Mar…

444
Daifuku

443
YKK

443
Crestron

442

What this shows Pirelli holds 445 patents at rank #991, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pirelli

By rank, the assignees closest to #991 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Subst…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pirelli, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Subst…), Pirelli ranks #4 of 946 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Auris Health, Inc. 60 Academia Sinica 60 Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company 60 Gpcp IP Holdings LLC 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC 15.7 avg The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University 15.7 avg Abbott Medical Optics Inc. 15.7 avg Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 15.7 avg

Pirelli's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	6.7%
2016	28	6.3%
2017	34	7.6%
2018	34	7.6%
2019	51	11.5%
2020	73	16.4%
2021	52	11.7%
2022	40	9.0%
2023	27	6.1%
2024	45	10.1%
2025partial year	31	7.0%

Which technologies does Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. patent most?

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 219

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 136

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 44

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 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 34

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 25

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 23

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 22

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 21

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 20

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 17

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 13

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 8

Top 15 of 57 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

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pirelli Tyre S.P.A.'s lead technology class is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State), 49.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29D
Ranked #991 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. against RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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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