Where does ELC Management LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ELC Management LLC ranks #1,385 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 ELC Management LLC hold?

ELC Management LLC holds 303 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is ELC Management LLC's Innovation Score?

ELC Management LLC has an Innovation Score of 59.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ELC Management LLC focus on?

ELC Management LLC's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 110 patents. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

Is ELC Management LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ELC Management LLC's recent grant velocity is -30% 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 ELC Management LLC's patents?

ELC Management LLC's patents average 7.7 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 ELC Management 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

ELC Management LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 303 granted patents across 64 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ELC ranks #1,385 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 303 patents across 64 technology areas.

#1,385
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.5/100): 7.7
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1385 · US Corporation #1,385 · 303 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 303 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,385/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DeepMind
CPC-WIDE A61K · 64 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DeepMind Technologies Limited (±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
ELC Management · this assignee

60
InVue Security… · near

60
LANDIS+GYR Innovations · near

60
Pilkington Group · near

60
Southwest Research… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ELC's Innovation Score is 59.5/100 (top 4% 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.

How ELC's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ELC Management LLC received 116 grants versus 165 in 2015–2019 (-30% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 43 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 13. Lead class A61K accounts for 36.3% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Pacific Biosciences OF California, Inc. (#1,381) and Beijing Didi Infinity Technology AND Development Co., Ltd. (#1,389).

ELC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ELC Management LLC moved from 51 to 78 grants (1.53x 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 #428. See the growth leaderboard.

Pacific Bioscienc…

304
STC UNM

304
Webasto SE

304
Deepmind

303
Magnachip Semicon…

303
Verint Americas

303
ELC Management ◀

303
Assistance Publiq…

302
Beijing Didi Infi…

302

What this shows ELC holds 303 patents at rank #1,385, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ELC

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,385 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ELC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Southwest Research Institute 60 InVue Security Products Inc. 60 LANDIS+GYR Innovations, Inc. 60 Pilkington Group Limited 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.7 here).

Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd. 7.7 avg University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 7.7 avg HCT Group Holdings Limited 7.7 avg Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited 7.7 avg

ELC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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ELC Management LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	38	12.5%
2016	43	14.2%
2017	41	13.5%
2018	30	9.9%
2019	13	4.3%
2020	21	6.9%
2021	17	5.6%
2022	33	10.9%
2023	15	5.0%
2024	30	9.9%
2025partial year	22	7.3%

Which technologies does ELC Management LLC patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 110

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 109

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 72

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 27

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 25

A46B - Brushes 11

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 10

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 6

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 6

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 5

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 5

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 5

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 4

A61H - Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body 3

A46D - Manufacture OF Brushes 3

Top 15 of 64 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,385

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

ELC Management LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ELC Management LLC's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 36.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #1,385 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ELC Management LLC against Pacific Biosciences OF California, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.5/100 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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