Overall rank by patents
#8,364
of 50,000 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 36 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H01H (ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Defond ranks #8,364 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 36 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R8364 · Foreign Corporation #8,364 · 38 grants
GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL
Nearest grant-volume peer: Datacolor, 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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Defond Componets · this assignee
46 score
Gradiant · near
46 score
Inscripta · near
46 score
Leggett & Platt Canada · near
46 score
Smule · near
46 score
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Defond Componets Limited stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #8,364 of 50,000; Innovation Score 46.1/100 sits in the top 22% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Datacolor, Inc. (±0 grants).
Defond Componets Limited has been granted 38 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Defond Componets Limited at #8,364 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 36 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 11.9 claims per patent with primary concentration in H01H (ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES). As a Foreign Corporation, Defond Componets Limited is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Defond sits between Delta Tooling Co., Ltd. (38 patents, rank #8,363) and Duke Manufacturing Co. (38 patents, rank #8,371) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 46.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.
Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 28 grants, compared with 9 in the 2015–2019 window, a +211% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.
Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Defond Componets Limited's 11.9 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 36 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
DELTA TOOLING CO., LTD.
38 patents
DNAe Group Holdings Limited
38 patents
DONGGUAN HUIHUAN LIGHTING CO., LTD
38 patents
Datacolor, Inc.
38 patents
Designetics, Inc
38 patents
DewertOkin GmbH
38 patents
Diehl Metering Systems GmbH
38 patents
Duke Manufacturing Co.
38 patents
Defond Componets Limited
38 patents
What this shows Defond holds 38 patents at rank #8,367, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #8,367 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in Defond's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Defond, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).
Defond's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 50,000 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 2.6% |
| 2016 | 2 | 5.3% |
| 2017 | 1 | 2.6% |
| 2018 | 3 | 7.9% |
| 2019 | 2 | 5.3% |
| 2020 | 9 | 23.7% |
| 2021 | 6 | 15.8% |
| 2022 | 6 | 15.8% |
| 2023 | 4 | 10.5% |
| 2024 | 3 | 7.9% |
| 2025partial year | 1 | 2.6% |
Top 15 of 36 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#8,364
of 50,000 tracked assignees
46.1 out of 100
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.