Where does Group Lotus Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Group Lotus Limited ranks #21,196 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 Group Lotus Limited hold?

Group Lotus Limited holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Group Lotus Limited's Innovation Score?

Group Lotus Limited has an Innovation Score of 29.7 out of 100 (32nd 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 Group Lotus Limited focus on?

Group Lotus Limited holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Group Lotus Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Group Lotus Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Group Lotus Limited's patents?

Group Lotus Limited's patents average 1.0 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 Group Lotus Limited 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

Group Lotus Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Group ranks #21,196 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 0 technology areas.

#21,196
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.7/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21196 · Foreign Corporation #21,196 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,196/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Grace Digital
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-THIN 29.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 8/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Grace Digital 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 Group’s 29.7 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 9.1 pts (31%) Velocity 20.0 pts (67%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CrunchLabs · near

30
Group Lotus · this assignee

30
Parabit Systems · near

30
Sentient (Barbados) · near

30
Shenzhen Smile… · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Group's Innovation Score is 29.7/100 (32nd 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 Group?

Each dot is one of Group’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). Group’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 4.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Group's grants concentrate

Group Lotus Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Group sits between Grace Digital Inc. and Guardian Technologies LLC.

Group's three-year grant acceleration

Group Lotus Limited shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Grace Digital

13
Graybug Vision

13
Griot's Garage

13
Griswold Controls

13
Gslide

13
Guru Wireless

13
Guangdong Bestek…

13
Guardian

13
Group Lotus ◀

13

What this shows Group holds 13 patents at rank #21,202, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Group

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,202 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

CrunchLabs LLC 30 Sentient Technologies (Barbados) Limited 30 Parabit Systems, Inc 30 Shenzhen Smile Technology Co., Ltd. 30

Group's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Group Lotus Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	7.7%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	5	38.5%
2023	1	7.7%
2024	4	30.8%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Group Lotus Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #21,196 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Group Lotus Limited against Grace Digital Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.