Where does Tenneco GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tenneco GmbH ranks #2,519 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 Tenneco GmbH hold?

Tenneco GmbH holds 155 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Tenneco GmbH's Innovation Score?

Tenneco GmbH has an Innovation Score of 53.4 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Tenneco GmbH focus on?

Tenneco GmbH's top technology area is F02F (Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines) with 64 patents, ranking #4 of 151 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tenneco GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tenneco GmbH's recent grant velocity is +20% 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 Tenneco GmbH's patents?

Tenneco GmbH's patents average 15.0 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 Tenneco 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

Tenneco GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 155 granted patents across 65 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: F02F (Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tenneco ranks #2,519 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 155 patents across 65 technology areas.

#2,519
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2519 · Foreign Corporation #2,519 · 155 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 155 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,519/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Newport Fab
CPC-WIDE F02F · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Newport Fab, 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 Tenneco’s 53.4 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 17.4 pts (33%) Velocity 2.0 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Frito-Lay North… · near

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Tenneco · this assignee

53
University of Seoul… · near

53
Cheil Industries · near

53
Idemia Identity &… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Tenneco's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (top 9% 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 Tenneco?

Each dot is one of Tenneco’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). Tenneco’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Tenneco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Tenneco GmbH received 84 grants versus 70 in 2015–2019 (+20% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 46 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class F02F accounts for 41.3% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Newport Fab, LLC (#2,515) and Cancer Research Technology Limited (#2,523).

Tenneco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tenneco GmbH moved from 100 to 30 grants (0.30x 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 #2,997. See the growth leaderboard.

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155
ONO Pharmaceutical

155
Safran Seats USA

155
Wilson Sporting G…

155
Tenneco ◀

155
Atlassian

154
CMR Surgical

154
Cancer Research T…

154

What this shows Tenneco holds 155 patents at rank #2,519, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tenneco

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,519 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02F (Cylinders)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tenneco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F02F (Cylinders), Tenneco ranks #4 of 151 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 53 University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation 53 Idemia Identity & Security France 53 Cheil Industries Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

HKC Corporation Limited 15.0 avg Telecommunication Systems, Inc. 15.0 avg Med-el Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH 15.0 avg Southwest Research Institute 15.0 avg

Tenneco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Tenneco GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.9%
2016	3	1.9%
2017	4	2.6%
2018	14	9.0%
2019	46	29.7%
2020	32	20.6%
2021	22	14.2%
2022	9	5.8%
2023	11	7.1%
2024	10	6.5%
2025partial year	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Tenneco GmbH patent most?

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 64

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 45

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 38

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 29

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 26

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 25

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 22

F05C - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Materials, Material Properties OR Material Characteristics FOR Machines, Engines OR Pumps Other Than Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines 17

H01T - Spark GAPS; Overvoltage Arresters Using Spark GAPS; Sparking PLUGS; Corona DEVICES; Generating Ions TO BE Introduced Into Non-enclosed Gases 15

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 11

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 11

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 11

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 11

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 10

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 10

Top 15 of 65 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

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Tenneco GmbH's lead technology class is F02F (Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines), 41.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02F
Ranked #2,519 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tenneco GmbH against Newport Fab, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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