Where does Bolb Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bolb Inc. ranks #8,752 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 Bolb Inc. hold?

Bolb Inc. holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Bolb Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bolb Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.2 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bolb Inc. focus on?

Bolb Inc.'s top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 19 patents, ranking #135 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bolb Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bolb Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +189% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bolb Inc.'s patents?

Bolb Inc.'s patents average 16.2 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 Bolb Inc. 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

Bolb Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bolb ranks #8,752 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 22 technology areas.

#8,752
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.2/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +189%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8752 · US Corporation #8,752 · 36 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,752/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Apixio
CPC-FOCUS H10H · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +189% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Apixio, 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 Bolb’s 44.2 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 12.5 pts (28%) Velocity 5.4 pts (12%) Breadth 16.6 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bolb · this assignee

44
Boomi · near

44
DecaWave · near

44
Uponor Innovation AB · near

44
Wenzhou Furuisi… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bolb's Innovation Score is 44.2/100 (top 26% 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 Bolb?

Each dot is one of Bolb’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). Bolb’s own 16.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bolb's grants concentrate

Bolb Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 52.8% of grants classified under H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Bolb sits between Apixio, LLC and Biofire Technologies Inc..

Bolb's three-year grant acceleration

Bolb Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Apixio

36
Arrowhead Center

36
Avecto

36
Bandwith COM

36
Brasscraft Manufa…

36
Beijing Sogou Tec…

36
Betek & KG

36
Biofire

36
Bolb ◀

36

What this shows Bolb holds 36 patents at rank #8,749, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bolb

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,749 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bolb, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), Bolb ranks #135 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Uponor Innovation AB 44 Boomi, LP 44 Wenzhou Furuisi Building Materials Co., Ltd. 44 DecaWave Ltd. 44

Bolb's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Bolb Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	8.3%
2017	3	8.3%
2019	3	8.3%
2020	6	16.7%
2021	7	19.4%
2022	4	11.1%
2023	6	16.7%
2024	3	8.3%
2025partial year	1	2.8%

Which technologies does Bolb Inc. patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 19

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 15

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 12

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 1

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 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 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 22 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

Bolb Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bolb Inc.'s lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 52.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #8,752 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bolb Inc. against Apixio, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.2/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.