Where does Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. ranks #2,105 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 Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. hold?

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. holds 188 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 92 technology areas.

What is Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.4 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 15.1 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 Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. 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

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is 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 ) with 57 patents, ranking #80 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 92 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 188 granted patents across 92 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: 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 Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Visteon ranks #2,105 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 188 patents across 92 technology areas.

#2,105
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.4/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2105 · US Corporation #2,105 · 188 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 188 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,105/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Starbucks
CPC-WIDE B60K · 92 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Starbucks Corporation (±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 Visteon’s 54.4 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 18.1 pts (33%) Velocity 2.2 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basell Poliolefine… · near

54
Dicerna Pharmaceutic… · near

54
Ford Motor · near

54
Pass & Seymour · near

54
Visteon Global · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Visteon's Innovation Score is 54.4/100 (top 8% 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 Visteon?

Each dot is one of Visteon’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). Visteon’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Visteon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. received 49 grants versus 135 in 2015–2019 (-64% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 40 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 4. Lead class B60K accounts for 30.3% of the portfolio across 92 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Starbucks Corporation (#2,101) and Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC (#2,109).

Visteon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. moved from 67 to 22 grants (0.33x 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 #2,967. See the growth leaderboard.

Starbucks

188
Symbotic

188
The Royal Institu…

188
VIB VZW

188
Widex A/S

188
Walker Edison Fur…

188
Visteon Global ◀

188
Breville Pty

187
Go Daddy Operating

187

What this shows Visteon holds 188 patents at rank #2,105, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Visteon

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,105 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Visteon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…), Visteon ranks #80 of 1,448 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l. 54 Pass & Seymour, Inc. 54 Ford Motor Company 54 Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.1 here).

Stora Enso OYJ 15.1 avg Sonoco Development, Inc. 15.1 avg Kuka Deutschland GmbH 15.1 avg University OF Maryland, Baltimore 15.1 avg

Visteon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	6.9%
2016	25	13.3%
2017	38	20.2%
2018	19	10.1%
2019	40	21.3%
2020	20	10.6%
2021	7	3.7%
2022	7	3.7%
2023	11	5.9%
2024	4	2.1%
2025partial year	4	2.1%

Which technologies does Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. patent most?

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 57

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 48

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 47

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 32

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 25

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 23

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 14

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 10

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 7

Top 15 of 92 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

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Dashb), 30.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #2,105 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. against Starbucks Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.4/100 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

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