Where does ABL IP Holding LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ABL IP Holding LLC ranks #537 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 ABL IP Holding LLC hold?

ABL IP Holding LLC holds 830 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 117 technology areas.

What is ABL IP Holding LLC's Innovation Score?

ABL IP Holding LLC has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ABL IP Holding LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ABL IP Holding LLC's recent grant velocity is -26% 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 ABL IP Holding LLC's patents?

ABL IP Holding LLC's patents average 16.3 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 ABL IP Holding 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

ABL IP Holding LLC

Q: What technology areas does ABL IP Holding LLC focus on?

ABL IP Holding LLC's top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 339 patents, ranking #9 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 117 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 830 granted patents across 117 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ABL ranks #537 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 830 patents across 117 technology areas.

#537
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R537 · US Corporation #537 · 830 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 830 grants
TOP-DECILE #537/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Gillette
CPC-WIDE H05B · 117 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Gillette Company LLC (±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 ABL’s 61.2 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 23.2 pts (38%) Velocity 3.2 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ABL IP Holding · this assignee

61
The Board of… · near

61
University OF… · near

61
Laitram L L C · near

61
Roland · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ABL's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 ABL?

Each dot is one of ABL’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). ABL’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How ABL's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ABL IP Holding LLC received 338 grants versus 456 in 2015–2019 (-26% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 128 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 30. Lead class H05B accounts for 40.8% of the portfolio across 117 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (#533) and University of Massachusetts (#541).

ABL's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ABL IP Holding LLC moved from 316 to 150 grants (0.47x 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 #2,754. See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Steel & Su…

842
Chongqing BOE Opt…

841
Exxonmobil Upstre…

841
Conopco

831
The Gillette

830
ABL IP Holding ◀

830
Corning Optical C…

828
Stmicroelectronic…

828
University of Mas…

828

What this shows ABL holds 830 patents at rank #537, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ABL

By rank, the assignees closest to #537 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ABL, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), ABL ranks #9 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

University OF Maryland, Baltimore 61 The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma 61 Laitram, L.L.C. 61 Roland Corporation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

3D Systems, Inc. 16.3 avg Hitachi Energy Ltd 16.3 avg MannKind Corporation 16.3 avg Quanta Associates, L.P. 16.3 avg

ABL's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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ABL IP Holding LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	65	7.8%
2016	57	6.9%
2017	93	11.2%
2018	113	13.6%
2019	128	15.4%
2020	103	12.4%
2021	85	10.2%
2022	67	8.1%
2023	53	6.4%
2024	30	3.6%
2025partial year	36	4.3%

Which technologies does ABL IP Holding LLC patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 339

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 261

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 194

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 192

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 191

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 120

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 99

H04B - Transmission 91

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 72

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 47

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 46

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 38

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 37

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 37

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

Top 15 of 117 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

ABL IP Holding LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ABL IP Holding LLC's lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 40.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #537 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ABL IP Holding LLC against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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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