Where does Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited ranks #24,156 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited hold?

Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited's Innovation Score?

Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 32.2 out of 100 (top 60% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited's recent grant velocity is +20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited's patents?

Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited's patents average 25.6 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited

Q: What technology areas does Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited focus on?

Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited's top technology area is H10H (INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 6 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: H10H (INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cree ranks #24,156 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 6 technology areas.

#24,156
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 60%
by Innovation Score (32.2/100): 25.6
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24156 · Foreign Corporation #24,156 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,156/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Cosucra Groupe Warco…
CPC-NARROW H10H · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cosucra Groupe Warcoing S.a. (±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
Cree Huizhou Solid S… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Cree's Innovation Score is 32.2/100 (top 60% 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.

Where Cree's grants concentrate

Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under H10H (INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Cree sits between Cosucra Groupe Warcoing S.a. and Cyalume Technologies, Inc..

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11
Cotron

11
Crave Innovations

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11
Cross Commerce Me…

11
Cure Pharmaceutic…

11
Curevac Manufactu…

11
Cyalume

11
Cree Huizhou Soli… ◀

11

What this shows Cree holds 11 patents at rank #24,169, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cree

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,169 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Cree's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 Top 60% higher than 40% of 50,000 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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Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2017	3	27.3%
2020	4	36.4%
2021	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Company Limited patent most?

H10H - INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS 9

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 9

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS 2

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

G02F - OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,156

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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