Where does Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC ranks #16,700 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 Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC hold?

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's Innovation Score?

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's recent grant velocity is +600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's patents?

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's patents average 15.6 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 Consumer Lighting (U.S.), 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

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC

Q: What technology areas does Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC focus on?

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's top technology area is 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) with 13 patents, ranking #66 of 564 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: 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-gen).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Consumer ranks #16,700 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 22 technology areas.

#16,700
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: +600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16700 · US Corporation #16,700 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,700/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chugoku Marine Paints
CPC-FOCUS F21K · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chugoku Marine Paints, 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 Consumer’s 35.9 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 10.0 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 16.6 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Consumer Lighting… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Consumer's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Consumer?

Each dot is one of Consumer’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). Consumer’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Consumer's grants concentrate

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under 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-gen). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Consumer sits between Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd. and Cpac Systems AB.

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Colop Stempelerze…

17
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17
Conventus Orthopa…

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Cosemi

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CP Kelco U S

17
Cpac Systems AB

17
Consumer Lighting… ◀

17

What this shows Consumer holds 17 patents at rank #16,676, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Consumer

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,676 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21K (Non-electric Light Sources Using Luminescence)

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

Consumer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	11.8%
2020	14	82.4%
2025partial year	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC patent most?

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 13

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 12

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 5

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 5

H01K - Electric Incandescent Lamps 4

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 4

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

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

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H04B - Transmission 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

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC's lead technology class is 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-gen), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21K
Ranked #16,700 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Consumer Lighting (U.S.), LLC against Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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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