Where does SEG Automotive Germany GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SEG Automotive Germany GmbH ranks #7,077 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 SEG Automotive Germany GmbH hold?

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's Innovation Score?

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH has an Innovation Score of 41.7 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's patents?

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's patents average 13.3 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 SEG Automotive Germany GmbH 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

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH

Q: What technology areas does SEG Automotive Germany GmbH focus on?

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's top technology area is H02P (Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils) with 17 patents, ranking #86 of 960 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: H02P (Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SEG ranks #7,077 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 29 technology areas.

#7,077
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.7/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7077 · Foreign Corporation #7,077 · 47 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,077/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sanhua (HANGZHOU)…
CPC-FOCUS H02P · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanhua (HANGZHOU) Micro Channel Heat Exchanger Co., 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 SEG’s 41.7 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 13.4 pts (32%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 19.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cairdac · near

42
Coriant Oy · near

42
Meyer Intellectual… · near

42
Protein Metrics · near

42
SEG Automotive Germany · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SEG's Innovation Score is 41.7/100 (top 33% 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 SEG?

Each dot is one of SEG’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). SEG’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where SEG's grants concentrate

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 36.2% of grants classified under H02P (Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (26 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, SEG sits between Sanhua (HANGZHOU) Micro Channel Heat Exchanger Co., Ltd. and Standard Lifters, Inc..

SEG's three-year grant acceleration

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Sanhua (Hangzhou)…

47
SAP

47
SEB

47
Seeo

47
Sensoriant

47
Shanghai Hongyan…

47
SSH Communication…

47
Standard Lifters

47
SEG Automotive Ge… ◀

47

What this shows SEG holds 47 patents at rank #7,075, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SEG

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,075 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02P (Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SEG, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02P (Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors), SEG ranks #86 of 960 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Coriant Oy 42 Protein Metrics, LLC 42 Meyer Intellectual Properties Ltd. 42 Cairdac 42

SEG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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SEG Automotive Germany GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	26	55.3%
2019	9	19.1%
2020	5	10.6%
2021	2	4.3%
2022	2	4.3%
2023	1	2.1%
2025partial year	2	4.3%

Which technologies does SEG Automotive Germany GmbH patent most?

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 17

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 11

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 10

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 7

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 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

F16H - Gearing 4

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 4

H03K - Pulse Technique 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

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

Top 15 of 29 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

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SEG Automotive Germany GmbH's lead technology class is H02P (Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils), 36.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02P
Ranked #7,077 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SEG Automotive Germany GmbH against Sanhua (HANGZHOU) Micro Channel Heat Exchanger Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.7/100 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

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