Where does ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC ranks #10,234 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 ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC hold?

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC's Innovation Score?

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC focus on?

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC's top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 14 patents, ranking #189 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC.

What does claim depth mean for ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC's patents?

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC's patents average 17.9 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 ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC 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

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ZF ranks #10,234 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 34 technology areas.

#10,234
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10234 · US Corporation #10,234 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,234/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH uniQure IP B V
CPC-FOCUS B62D · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: uniQure IP B.V. (±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 ZF’s 58.1 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 12.0 pts (21%) Velocity 14.8 pts (25%) Breadth 20.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Monash University · near

58
VEO Robotics · near

58
xMEMS Labs · near

58
ZF Active Safety… · this assignee

58
Goodrich Lighting… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ZF's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (top 5% 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 ZF?

Each dot is one of ZF’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). ZF’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where ZF's grants concentrate

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 45.2% of grants classified under B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, ZF sits between Waddington North America, Inc. and Acorn Technologies, Inc..

ZF's three-year grant acceleration

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Waddington North…

31
Wastequip

31
Xcerra

31
Yunding Network T…

31
uniqure IP B V

31
ZF Active Safety… ◀

31
3DS Engineering P…

30
AAC Acoustic (Sha…

30
Acorn

30

What this shows ZF holds 31 patents at rank #10,233, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ZF

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,233 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ZF, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B62D (Motor Vehicles), ZF ranks #189 of 1,368 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

VEO Robotics, Inc. 58 xMEMS Labs, Inc. 58 Monash University 58 Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH & Co. KG 58

ZF's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	6.5%
2021	7	22.6%
2022	11	35.5%
2023	2	6.5%
2024	7	22.6%
2025partial year	2	6.5%

Which technologies does ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 14

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

F16H - Gearing 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 2

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 2

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 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

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 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 1

Top 15 of 34 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

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC's lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 45.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #10,234 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ZF Active Safety AND Electronics US LLC against Waddington North America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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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