Where does Focal Point, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Focal Point, LLC ranks #7,553 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 Focal Point, LLC hold?

Focal Point, LLC holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Focal Point, LLC's Innovation Score?

Focal Point, LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.6 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Focal Point, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Focal Point, LLC's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Focal Point, LLC's patents?

Focal Point, LLC's patents average 9.9 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 Focal Point, 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

Focal Point, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Focal Point, LLC focus on?

Focal Point, LLC'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 19 patents, ranking #137 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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, Focal ranks #7,553 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 10 technology areas.

#7,553
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.6/100): 9.9
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7553 · US Corporation #7,553 · 43 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,553/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dualitas
CPC-FOCUS F21V · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dualitas 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 Focal’s 35.6 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 13.1 pts (37%) Velocity 5.5 pts (15%) Breadth 11.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ABP Induction Systems · near

36
DAV · near

36
Focal Point · this assignee

36
ITM Semiconductor · near

36
Vodafone Group · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Focal's Innovation Score is 35.6/100 (top 49% 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 Focal?

Each dot is one of Focal’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). Focal’s own 9.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Focal's grants concentrate

Focal Point, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 44.2% 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 2017 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Focal sits between Dualitas Ltd and Gowin Semiconductor Corporation.

Focal's three-year grant acceleration

Focal Point, LLC shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Dualitas

43
Edsal Manufacturi…

43
Elektrobit Automo…

43
Evernorth Strateg…

43
Forsight Vision4

43
G1 Therapeutics

43
Getrag Getriebe-…

43
Gowin Semiconduct…

43
Focal Point ◀

43

What this shows Focal holds 43 patents at rank #7,553, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Focal

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,553 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Focal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…), Focal ranks #137 of 1,842 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Vodafone Group PLC. 36 DAV 36 ITM Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 36 ABP Induction Systems GmbH 36

Focal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Focal Point, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	4.7%
2017	12	27.9%
2018	9	20.9%
2019	5	11.6%
2020	4	9.3%
2021	2	4.7%
2022	6	14.0%
2023	2	4.7%
2024	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Focal Point, LLC 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 19

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 16

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 12

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

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 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Focal Point, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Focal Point, LLC'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), 44.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #7,553 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Focal Point, LLC against Dualitas Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.6/100 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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