Where does Flos S.P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Flos S.P.A. ranks #3,563 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 Flos S.P.A. hold?

Flos S.P.A. holds 103 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Flos S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

Flos S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 25.5 out of 100 (17th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Flos S.P.A. focus on?

Flos S.P.A.'s top technology area is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors) with 1 patents, ranking #732 of 1,094 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Flos S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Flos S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Flos S.P.A.'s patents?

Flos S.P.A.'s patents average 1.1 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 Flos S.P.A. 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

Flos S.P.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 103 granted patents across 3 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: F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Flos ranks #3,563 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 103 patents across 3 technology areas.

#3,563
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 17th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.5/100): 1.1
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3563 · Foreign Corporation #3,563 · 103 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 103 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,563/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Celgene Quanticel…
CPC-NARROW F21S · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Celgene Quanticel Research, 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 Flos’s 25.5 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 16.0 pts (63%) Velocity 2.6 pts (10%) Breadth 6.1 pts (24%) Claim depth 0.7 pts (3%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
PRO MAG MFG · near

25
PUC Perfect Union · near

25
Flos S P A · this assignee

25
Qizhi Software… · near

25
Yuyao Yuchang… · near

25
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Flos's Innovation Score is 25.5/100 (17th 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 Flos?

Each dot is one of Flos’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). Flos’s own 1.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Flos's grants concentrate

Flos S.P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 1% of grants classified under F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (26 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Flos sits between Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd. and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University.

Flos's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Flos S.P.A. moved from 43 to 17 grants (0.40x 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 #2,886. See the growth leaderboard.

Yuyama Mfg

104
Celgene Quanticel…

103
Crayola

103
Evogene

103
Fastly

103
Flatfrog Laborato…

103
In-situ

103
Industry-academic…

103
Flos S P A ◀

103

What this shows Flos holds 103 patents at rank #3,561, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Flos

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,561 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Flos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices), Flos ranks #732 of 1,094 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (25 here).

Qizhi Software (BEIJING) Company Limited 25 PUC Perfect Union Co., Ltd. 25 PRO MAG MFG., Inc. 25 Yuyao Yuchang Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd. 25

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.1 here).

Birkenstock IP GmbH 1.1 avg Comfort Research, LLC 1.1 avg Everich AND Tomic Housewares Co., Ltd. 1.1 avg Spectrum Diversified Designs, LLC 1.1 avg

Flos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 17th percentile higher than 17% 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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Flos S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	14.6%
2017	24	23.3%
2018	3	2.9%
2019	26	25.2%
2020	7	6.8%
2021	10	9.7%
2022	2	1.9%
2023	9	8.7%
2024	6	5.8%
2025partial year	1	1.0%

Which technologies does Flos S.P.A. patent most?

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

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 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 3 of 3 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

Flos S.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Flos S.P.A.'s lead technology class is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors), 1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21S
Ranked #3,563 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Flos S.P.A. against Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.5/100 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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