Lear Corporation — 8 prefixes (MA-L)

Lear Corporation is a Southfield, Michigan-headquartered automotive supplier (NYSE: LEA) founded in 1917, organized into two segments — Seating and E-Systems — with roughly 173,700 employees across 253 manufacturing, engineering, and administrative locations in 37 countries as of late 2024. The IEEE MA-L registry carries eight distinct OUI blocks under three spelling variants of the company name ("LEAR", "Lear Corporation", "Lear Corporation GmbH"), which this pipeline's slug logic correctly collapses into one consolidated vendor entry rather than eight thin per-prefix pages. Five of the eight blocks trace to Lear's Kronach, Germany facility and three to a Valls, Spain facility — both real manufacturing/engineering addresses consistent with Lear's known European E-Systems footprint, not placeholder registrations. Lear's E-Systems division explicitly markets in-vehicle Ethernet, wiring-harness, power-distribution, and electronic-control-unit hardware, which plausibly corresponds to the device class behind these OUI assignments, though no source ties any single prefix to a named product. No vendor-lear row exists yet in this site's own enrichment records; this entry is a new consolidation candidate queued in NEXT-BATCH-oui.md.

Master status

no vendor-lear row currently exists in this site's own enrichment records; this is a new/pending vendor-consolidation candidate queued at this site's own enrichment records:11 [Confirmed] — this site's own enrichment records, this site's own enrichment records

IEEE assignment

8 prefixes → Lear Corporation, registered under three org-name spelling variants ("LEAR", "Lear Corporation", "Lear Corporation GmbH") that consolidate to this single vendor entry [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (repo-local IEEE MA-L mirror)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) x8; no matching MA-M or MA-S assignments found for "Lear" [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Registered addresses

two clusters — Industriestrasse 48, Kronach, Bavaria, DE 96317 (5 of 8 prefixes) and Carrer Fuster 54, Valls, Tarragona, ES 43800 (3 of 8 prefixes); corporate HQ is Southfield, Michigan, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear_Corporation

Company status

active, publicly traded (NYSE: LEA), ~173,700 employees, 253 locations in 37 countries as of Dec 2024 [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear_Corporation, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000162828023026599/lear-sx3asr.htm

Device types

automotive Ethernet / in-vehicle network hardware — wiring harnesses, power distribution modules, electronic control units, connectors, via Lear's E-Systems division [Likely] — https://www.lear.com/technology/e-systems, https://www.lear.com/newsroom/lear-ims-connector-systems-partner-on-high-speed-ethernet-solutions (no source ties a specific prefix to a named product)

Notable products

E-Systems electrical distribution systems; Seating (Lear's two business segments) [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear_Corporation

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L, Lear-family org names)

00:1A:37, 48:C5:8D, 48:16:93, A4:97:8A, 88:50:46, 14:39:2F, 34:4E:2F, E8:A9:27 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Org-name variance

the source registry itself carries "LEAR" (all-caps), "Lear Corporation", and "Lear Corporation GmbH", plus a diacritic variant ("Industriestrasse" vs "Industriestraße") across the 8 rows — source-data inconsistency in the cached IEEE file, not a transcription error; that all 8 rows represent one corporate entity is Likely but not explicitly stated by the registry data itself

[Likely] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Security context

no vendor-specific advisories, CVEs, or incident reports tied to Lear MAC/OUI-tagged devices surfaced in this light pass; absence read as "not found in this pass," not as "confirmed clean" [Unknown] — no source found

Date caveat

maclookup.app's page for 00:1A:37 shows a "first registration: 29 November 2006" — this is a maclookup.app database-scrape artifact, not an IEEE-published fact; IEEE's own MA-L registry publishes no assignment/registration dates, so no date is recorded for these prefixes

[Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/lear-corporation

Related vendors

none identified [Unknown] — no source found