Where does Rivian IP Holdings, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rivian IP Holdings, LLC ranks #649 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 Rivian IP Holdings, LLC hold?

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC holds 690 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 112 technology areas.

What is Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's Innovation Score?

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC has an Innovation Score of 76.9 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 Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's recent grant velocity is +25450% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's patents?

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's patents average 15.5 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 Rivian IP Holdings, 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

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Rivian IP Holdings, LLC focus on?

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's top technology area is 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) with 157 patents, ranking #21 of 1,396 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 112 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 690 granted patents across 112 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: B60L (Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic SU).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rivian ranks #649 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 690 patents across 112 technology areas.

#649
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (76.9/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +25450%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R649 · US Corporation #649 · 690 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 690 grants
TOP-DECILE #649/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Immatics Biotechnolo…
CPC-WIDE B60L · 112 areas
INNOV-STRONG 76.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +25450% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH (±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 Rivian’s 76.9 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 22.6 pts (29%) Velocity 20.0 pts (26%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
TCL China Star… · near

77
Huawei · near

77
Rivian IP Holdings · this assignee

77
Beijing Baidu… · near

77
TE Connectivity… · near

77
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rivian's Innovation Score is 76.9/100 (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 Rivian?

Each dot is one of Rivian’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). Rivian’s own 15.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Rivian's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Rivian IP Holdings, LLC received 511 grants versus 2 in 2015–2019 (+25450% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 218 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 2. Lead class B60L accounts for 22.8% of the portfolio across 112 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Posco Co., Ltd (#645) and Evonik Degussa GMBH (#653).

Rivian's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rivian IP Holdings, LLC moved from 51 to 462 grants (9.06x 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 #12. See the growth leaderboard.

Posco

691
Schneider Electri…

691
University of Was…

691
Immatics Biotechn…

690
Rivian IP Holdings ◀

690
Carl Zeiss Meditec

689
Saturn Licensing

689
The Research Foun…

688
Evonik Degussa

686

What this shows Rivian holds 690 patents at rank #649, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rivian

By rank, the assignees closest to #649 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60L (Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rivian, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60L (Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles), Rivian ranks #21 of 1,396 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (77 here).

Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. 77 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 77 TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 77 TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH 77

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

Caterpillar Inc. 15.5 avg Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy S.P.A. 15.5 avg Widex A/S 15.5 avg A. Raymond ET CIE 15.5 avg

Rivian'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 · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Rivian IP Holdings, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	0.3%
2020	27	3.9%
2021	22	3.2%
2022	85	12.3%
2023	159	23.0%
2024	218	31.6%
2025partial year	177	25.7%

Which technologies does Rivian IP Holdings, LLC patent most?

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 157

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 125

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 112

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 110

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 90

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 71

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 54

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 52

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 51

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 32

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 28

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 26

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 25

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 24

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 23

Top 15 of 112 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

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rivian IP Holdings, LLC's lead technology class is B60L (Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic SU), 22.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60L
Ranked #649 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rivian IP Holdings, LLC against Posco Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 76.9/100 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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