Where does CreeLED, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CreeLED, Inc. ranks #3,275 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 CreeLED, Inc. hold?

CreeLED, Inc. holds 114 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is CreeLED, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

CreeLED, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 66.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CreeLED, Inc. focus on?

CreeLED, Inc.'s top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 87 patents, ranking #35 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for CreeLED, Inc..

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

CreeLED, Inc.'s patents average 21.2 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 CreeLED, 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

CreeLED, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 114 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Creeled ranks #3,275 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 114 patents across 24 technology areas.

#3,275
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.4/100): 21.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3275 · US Corporation #3,275 · 114 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 114 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,275/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asana
CPC-FOCUS H10H · 24 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asana, Inc. (±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 Creeled’s 66.4 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 16.4 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (30%) Breadth 17.3 pts (26%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wuhan University · near

66
CreeLED · this assignee

66
Generac Power Systems · near

66
SPM Oil & Gas · near

66
Xilinx · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Creeled's Innovation Score is 66.4/100 (top 1% 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 Creeled?

Each dot is one of Creeled’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). Creeled’s own 21.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Creeled's grants concentrate

CreeLED, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 76.3% of grants classified under H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (27 grants) versus a trough of 22 in 2021. By volume, Creeled sits between Asana, Inc. and Hiroshima University.

Creeled's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, CreeLED, Inc. moved from 22 to 74 grants (3.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #67. See the growth leaderboard.

Asana

114
Baidu COM Times T…

114
Bard Peripheral V…

114
Chia Tai Tianqing…

114
Dreamwell

114
Equinor Energy AS

114
Exfo

114
Hiroshima Univers…

114
Creeled ◀

114

What this shows CreeLED holds 114 patents at rank #3,275, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CreeLED

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,275 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CreeLED, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), CreeLED ranks #35 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

SPM Oil & Gas Inc. 66 Generac Power Systems, Inc. 66 Xilinx, Inc. 66 Wuhan University 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.2 here).

Abraxis BioScience, LLC 21.2 avg ROM Technologies, Inc. 21.2 avg Idex Health & Science LLC 21.2 avg Leap Motion, Inc. 21.2 avg

Creeled's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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CreeLED, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	22	19.3%
2022	24	21.1%
2023	27	23.7%
2024	23	20.2%
2025partial year	18	15.8%

Which technologies does CreeLED, Inc. patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 87

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 62

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 14

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 12

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

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 8

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 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 5

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 4

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

Top 15 of 24 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

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

CreeLED, Inc.'s lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 76.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #3,275 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CreeLED, Inc. against Asana, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.4/100 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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