Where does TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh ranks #23,546 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh hold?

TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh's Innovation Score?

TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 27.9 out of 100 (top 75% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh's patents?

TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh's patents average 13.2 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 TI Automotive (heidelberg) 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

TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh focus on?

TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: F16L (PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, TI ranks #23,546 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 10 technology areas.

#23,546
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 75%
by Innovation Score (27.9/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23546 · Foreign Corporation #23,546 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,546/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH THE METHODIST HOSPIT…
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: THE Methodist Hospital System (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
TI Automotive (heide… · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows TI's Innovation Score is 27.9/100 (top 75% 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.

Where TI's grants concentrate

TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, TI sits between THE Methodist Hospital System and Toppan Forms Co., Ltd..

THE Methodist Hos…

12
Thermal Imaging R…

12
Thinkware Systems

12
Thyroscope

12
TMD Friction Serv…

12
TOMI Environmenta…

12
Tomoe Engineering

12
Toppan Forms

12
TI Automotive (He… ◀

12

What this shows TI holds 12 patents at rank #23,508, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TI

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,508 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

TI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 75% higher than 25% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	16.7%
2017	4	33.3%
2018	3	25.0%
2019	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does TI Automotive (heidelberg) Gmbh patent most?

F16L - PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL 10

F02M - SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF 7

B60T - VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL ; ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES 4

F28D - HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT 2

F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION 1

F01N - GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES 1

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 1

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 1

C25D - PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR 1

B21C - MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,546

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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