Where does Vitesco Technologies GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vitesco Technologies GMBH ranks #765 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 Vitesco Technologies GMBH hold?

Vitesco Technologies GMBH holds 601 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 122 technology areas.

What is Vitesco Technologies GMBH's Innovation Score?

Vitesco Technologies GMBH has an Innovation Score of 66.5 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 Vitesco Technologies GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vitesco Technologies GMBH's recent grant velocity is +10660% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Vitesco Technologies GMBH's patents?

Vitesco Technologies GMBH's patents average 12.5 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 Vitesco Technologies 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

Vitesco Technologies GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Vitesco Technologies GMBH focus on?

Vitesco Technologies GMBH's top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 221 patents. Grants appear in 122 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 601 granted patents across 122 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vitesco ranks #765 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 601 patents across 122 technology areas.

#765
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.5/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: +10660%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R765 · Foreign Corporation #765 · 601 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 601 grants
TOP-DECILE #765/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ethicon Endo-Surgery
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 122 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +10660% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (±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
Advanced Neuromodula… · near

67
University of… · near

67
Driv Automotive · near

67
Kepler Computing · near

67
Vitesco · this assignee

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vitesco's Innovation Score is 66.5/100 (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.

How Vitesco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Vitesco Technologies GMBH received 538 grants versus 5 in 2015–2019 (+10660% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 132 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 5. Lead class Y02T accounts for 36.8% of the portfolio across 122 subclasses. Volume neighbours: DIC Corporation (#761) and Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd. (#769).

Vitesco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vitesco Technologies GMBH moved from 195 to 348 grants (1.78x 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 #279. See the growth leaderboard.

DIC

602
Maxlinear

602
Ethicon Endo-surg…

601
Sunpower

601
Vitesco ◀

601
TDK Taiwan

598
Bio-rad Laborator…

597
Donaldson

597
Panasonic Liquid…

597

What this shows Vitesco holds 601 patents at rank #765, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vitesco

By rank, the assignees closest to #765 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vitesco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Kepler Computing Inc. 67 Driv Automotive Inc. 67 University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. 67 Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.5 here).

Glory Ltd. 12.5 avg Liberty Hardware MFG. Corp. 12.5 avg Janssen Sciences Ireland UC 12.5 avg KX Technologies LLC 12.5 avg

Vitesco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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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Vitesco Technologies GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	5	0.8%
2020	68	11.3%
2021	122	20.3%
2022	132	22.0%
2023	95	15.8%
2024	121	20.1%
2025partial year	58	9.7%

Which technologies does Vitesco Technologies GMBH patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 221

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 187

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 114

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 108

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 62

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 45

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 43

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 38

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 38

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 36

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 34

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 33

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 31

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 27

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 27

Top 15 of 122 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#765

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

66.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Vitesco Technologies GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vitesco Technologies GMBH's lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 36.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #765 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vitesco Technologies GMBH against DIC Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.5/100 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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