Where does Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. ranks #46,228 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 Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. hold?

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2020, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 20.8 out of 100 (7th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents average 4.8 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 Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. focus on?

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'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 4 patents, ranking #598 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2020. 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, Dongguan ranks #46,228 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 11 technology areas.

#46,228
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 7th percentile
by Innovation Score (20.8/100): 4.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R46228 · Foreign Corporation #46,228 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #46,228/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dong-a Flexible…
CPC-FOCUS F21V · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 20.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dong-a Flexible Metal Tubes Co., Ltd (±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 Dongguan’s 20.8 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 6.2 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.7 pts (56%) Claim depth 2.9 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dongguan City Minleon · this assignee

21
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dongguan's Innovation Score is 20.8/100 (7th percentile 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 Dongguan?

Each dot is one of Dongguan’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). Dongguan’s own 4.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 4.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dongguan's grants concentrate

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Dongguan sits between Dong-a Flexible Metal Tubes Co., Ltd and Dongguan Iine Technology Co., Ltd.

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5

What this shows Dongguan holds 5 patents at rank #46,124, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dongguan

By rank, the assignees closest to #46,124 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Dongguan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 7th percentile higher than 7% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	40.0%
2019	1	20.0%
2020	2	40.0%

Which technologies does Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. 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 4

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 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

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

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

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd.'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), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #46,228 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dongguan City Minleon Electronics Co., Ltd. against Dong-a Flexible Metal Tubes Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 20.8/100 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

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