Where does Biological Illumination, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Biological Illumination, LLC ranks #15,149 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 Biological Illumination, LLC hold?

Biological Illumination, LLC holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Biological Illumination, LLC's Innovation Score?

Biological Illumination, LLC has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Biological Illumination, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Biological Illumination, LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Biological Illumination, LLC's patents?

Biological Illumination, LLC's patents average 19.9 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 Biological Illumination, 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

Biological Illumination, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Biological Illumination, LLC focus on?

Biological Illumination, 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 15 patents, ranking #234 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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, Biological ranks #15,149 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 16 technology areas.

#15,149
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15149 · US Corporation #15,149 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,149/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Best Pacific Textile
CPC-FOCUS H05B · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Best Pacific Textile Ltd. (±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 Biological’s 36.4 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 10.3 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Biological's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 46% 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 Biological?

Each dot is one of Biological’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). Biological’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Biological's grants concentrate

Biological Illumination, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 78.9% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Biological sits between Best Pacific Textile Ltd. and Blackfire Research Corporation.

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19
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Betterup

19
Biolamina AB

19
Biomet UK Healthc…

19
Biomet UK

19
Black Sesame Inte…

19
Blackfire Research

19
Biological Illumi… ◀

19

What this shows Biological holds 19 patents at rank #15,155, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Biological

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,155 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Biological's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Biological Illumination, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	52.6%
2016	4	21.1%
2017	4	21.1%
2019	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Biological Illumination, LLC patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 15

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 9

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 8

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 8

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 8

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 7

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 3

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Biological Illumination, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Biological Illumination, LLC's lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 78.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #15,149 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Biological Illumination, LLC against Best Pacific Textile Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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

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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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