Where does Globe Electric Company Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Globe Electric Company Inc. ranks #11,262 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 Globe Electric Company Inc. hold?

Globe Electric Company Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Globe Electric Company Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Globe Electric Company Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.3 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Globe Electric Company Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Globe Electric Company Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +2200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Globe Electric Company Inc.'s patents?

Globe Electric Company Inc.'s patents average 9.3 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 Globe Electric Company Inc. 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

Globe Electric Company Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Globe Electric Company Inc. focus on?

Globe Electric Company Inc.'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 11 patents, ranking #244 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 10 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: 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, Globe ranks #11,262 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 10 technology areas.

#11,262
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: +2200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11262 · Foreign Corporation #11,262 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,262/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gemalto M2M
CPC-FOCUS F21V · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gemalto M2M GmbH (±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 Globe’s 48.3 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 11.5 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 11.2 pts (23%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BruMate · near

48
Faurecia Autositze · near

48
Globe Electric · this assignee

48
Kwang Yang Motor · near

48
Tech Friends · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Globe's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (top 17% 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 Globe?

Each dot is one of Globe’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). Globe’s own 9.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Globe's grants concentrate

Globe Electric Company Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 40.7% 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 2023 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Globe sits between Georg UTZ Holding AG and Gemalto M2M GmbH.

Globe's three-year grant acceleration

Globe Electric Company Inc. shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Georg UTZ Holding

27
Geosat Aerospace…

27
GKN Aerospace Ser…

27
Gleason-pfauter M…

27
Grifols Worldwide…

27
GTJ Ventures

27
GUI Global Produc…

27
Gemalto M2M

27
Globe Electric ◀

27

What this shows Globe holds 27 patents at rank #11,258, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Globe

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,258 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Globe, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…), Globe ranks #244 of 1,842 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Tech Friends, Inc. 48 BruMate, Inc. 48 Faurecia Autositze GmbH 48 Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd. 48

Globe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Globe Electric Company Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.7%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	2	7.4%
2022	1	3.7%
2023	9	33.3%
2024	9	33.3%
2025partial year	3	11.1%

Which technologies does Globe Electric Company Inc. 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 11

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 10

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 10

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

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 4

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 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

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

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

Globe Electric Company Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Globe Electric Company Inc.'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), 40.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #11,262 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Globe Electric Company Inc. against Georg UTZ Holding AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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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