Where does Cooper Technologies Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cooper Technologies Company ranks #713 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 Cooper Technologies Company hold?

Cooper Technologies Company holds 637 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 119 technology areas.

What is Cooper Technologies Company's Innovation Score?

Cooper Technologies Company has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cooper Technologies Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cooper Technologies Company's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Cooper Technologies Company's patents?

Cooper Technologies Company's patents average 16.7 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 Cooper Technologies Company 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

Cooper Technologies Company

Q: What technology areas does Cooper Technologies Company focus on?

Cooper Technologies Company's top technology area is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 232 patents. Grants appear in 119 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 637 granted patents across 119 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cooper ranks #713 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 637 patents across 119 technology areas.

#713
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R713 · US Corporation #713 · 637 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 637 grants
TOP-DECILE #713/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Industry-university…
CPC-WIDE F21V · 119 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advics · near

57
Cooper · this assignee

57
Rockley Photonics · near

57
Shiseido · near

57
The University… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cooper's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% 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.

How Cooper's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cooper Technologies Company received 4 grants versus 633 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 174 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 2. Lead class F21V accounts for 36.4% of the portfolio across 119 subclasses. Volume neighbours: S. C. Johnson & SON, Inc. (#709) and Oath Inc. (#717).

S C Johnson & SON

640
MANN+Hummel

639
Lincoln Global

638
Mitsubishi Hitach…

638
Industry-universi…

637
Ohio State Innova…

637
Schlage Lock

637
Cooper ◀

637
Oath

635

What this shows Cooper holds 637 patents at rank #713, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cooper

By rank, the assignees closest to #713 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cooper, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Shiseido Company, Limited 57 Rockley Photonics Limited 57 The University Court of the University of Edinburgh 57 Advics Co., Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Gree Holdings, Inc. 16.7 avg United States Gypsum Company 16.7 avg Kemira OYJ 16.7 avg Hutchinson Technology Incorporated 16.7 avg

Cooper's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Cooper Technologies Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	139	21.8%
2016	157	24.6%
2017	174	27.3%
2018	113	17.7%
2019	50	7.8%
2020	2	0.3%
2021	2	0.3%

Which technologies does Cooper Technologies Company patent most?

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 232

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 171

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 165

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 92

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 60

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 58

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 54

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 54

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 52

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 47

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 42

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 42

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 34

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 30

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 23

Top 15 of 119 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#713

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

57.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Cooper Technologies Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cooper Technologies Company's lead technology class is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 36.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #713 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cooper Technologies Company against S. C. Johnson & SON, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 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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