Where does Cree Lighting USA LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cree Lighting USA LLC ranks #22,425 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 Cree Lighting USA LLC hold?

Cree Lighting USA LLC holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Cree Lighting USA LLC's Innovation Score?

Cree Lighting USA LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cree Lighting USA LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Cree Lighting USA LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Cree Lighting USA LLC's patents?

Cree Lighting USA LLC's patents average 18.0 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 Cree Lighting USA 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

Cree Lighting USA LLC

Q: What technology areas does Cree Lighting USA LLC focus on?

Cree Lighting USA LLC's top technology area is 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) with 10 patents, ranking #208 of 1,359 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cree ranks #22,425 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 12 technology areas.

#22,425
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22425 · US Corporation #22,425 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,425/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cortec L L C
CPC-FOCUS F21Y · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cortec, L.L.C. (±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 Cree’s 51.9 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 8.9 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 12.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cree Lighting USA · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cree's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 Cree?

Each dot is one of Cree’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). Cree’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cree's grants concentrate

Cree Lighting USA LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under 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). By volume, Cree sits between Cortec, L.L.C. and CU Aerospace, LLC.

Cree's three-year grant acceleration

Cree Lighting USA LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Cortec L L C

12
Coskata

12
Costa Express

12
Crage Medical

12
Crown Bioscience…

12
Crystal Internati…

12
CSI Cells

12
CU Aerospace

12
Cree Lighting USA ◀

12

What this shows Cree holds 12 patents at rank #22,376, 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 #22,376 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k)

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)

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cree Lighting USA LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	6	50.0%
2025partial year	6	50.0%

Which technologies does Cree Lighting USA LLC patent most?

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 10

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 7

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 3

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 3

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 2

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

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Cree Lighting USA LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cree Lighting USA LLC's lead technology class is 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), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21Y
Ranked #22,425 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cree Lighting USA LLC against Cortec, L.L.C., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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

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.