Where does Ideal Industries Lighting LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ideal Industries Lighting LLC ranks #1,938 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 Ideal Industries Lighting LLC hold?

Ideal Industries Lighting LLC holds 207 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is Ideal Industries Lighting LLC's Innovation Score?

Ideal Industries Lighting LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.7 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%).

Is Ideal Industries Lighting LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ideal Industries Lighting LLC's recent grant velocity is +318% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ideal Industries Lighting LLC's patents?

Ideal Industries Lighting LLC's patents average 20.8 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 Ideal Industries Lighting 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

Ideal Industries Lighting LLC

Q: What technology areas does Ideal Industries Lighting LLC focus on?

Ideal Industries Lighting 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 125 patents. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 207 granted patents across 51 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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, Ideal ranks #1,938 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 207 patents across 51 technology areas.

#1,938
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.7/100): 20.8
avg claims per patent: +318%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1938 · US Corporation #1,938 · 207 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 207 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,938/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cole Haan
CPC-WIDE F21V · 51 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +318% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cole Haan LLC (±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
National University… · near

59
The Braun · near

59
Cooler Master · near

59
Ideal Industries… · this assignee

59
Lacks Enterprises · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ideal's Innovation Score is 58.7/100 (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 Ideal's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ideal Industries Lighting LLC received 167 grants versus 40 in 2015–2019 (+318% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 56 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 6. Lead class F21V accounts for 60.4% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Zephyros, Inc. (#1,934) and Showa Corporation (#1,942).

Ideal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ideal Industries Lighting LLC moved from 146 to 61 grants (0.42x 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 #2,846. See the growth leaderboard.

Zephyros

208
Cole Haan

207
Fujitsu General

207
Fujitsu Optical C…

207
Korea Institute O…

207
Magna Closures

207
Safran Nacelles

207
Showa

207
Ideal Industries… ◀

207

What this shows Ideal holds 207 patents at rank #1,938, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ideal

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,938 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Cooler Master Co., Ltd. 59 Lacks Enterprises, Inc. 59 National University Corporation Hokkaido University 59 The Braun Corporation 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.8 here).

Innovium, Inc. 20.8 avg L-3 Communications Corporation 20.8 avg EMS-Patent AG 20.8 avg Lynk Labs, Inc. 20.8 avg

Ideal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 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 · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Ideal Industries Lighting LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	40	19.3%
2020	50	24.2%
2021	56	27.1%
2022	25	12.1%
2023	30	14.5%
2024	6	2.9%

Which technologies does Ideal Industries Lighting 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 125

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 120

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 103

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 52

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 52

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 45

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 33

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 27

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 10

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 6

Top 15 of 51 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,938

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.7 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

Ideal Industries Lighting LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ideal Industries Lighting 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), 60.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #1,938 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ideal Industries Lighting LLC against Zephyros, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.7/100 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

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