Where does Illuminate Consulting, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Illuminate Consulting, LLC ranks #40,859 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 Illuminate Consulting, LLC hold?

Illuminate Consulting, LLC holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Illuminate Consulting, LLC's Innovation Score?

Illuminate Consulting, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.8 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Illuminate Consulting, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Illuminate Consulting, LLC's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Illuminate Consulting, LLC's patents?

Illuminate Consulting, LLC's patents average 46.0 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 Illuminate Consulting, 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

Illuminate Consulting, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Illuminate Consulting, LLC focus on?

Illuminate Consulting, LLC's top technology area is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages) with 6 patents, ranking #606 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Illuminate ranks #40,859 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 4 technology areas.

#40,859
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.8/100): 46.0
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40859 · US Corporation #40,859 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #40,859/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH IHS Global
CPC-NARROW B65D · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 46.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: IHS Global 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 Illuminate’s 48.8 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 6.7 pts (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 7.1 pts (15%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Illuminate Consulting · this assignee

49
Marelli Automotive… · near

49
Scribe Therapeutics · near

49
Soreq Nuclear… · near

49
UNIVERSITÉ Catholiqu… · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Illuminate's Innovation Score is 48.8/100 (top 16% 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 Illuminate?

Each dot is one of Illuminate’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). Illuminate’s own 46.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Illuminate's grants concentrate

Illuminate Consulting, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Illuminate sits between IHS Global Inc. and Imagry Israel Ltd..

Illuminate's three-year grant acceleration

Illuminate Consulting, LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

IHS Global

6
Ikamper

6
IKS

6
Illuma Labs

6
Illumitex

6
Image

6
Imagoworks

6
Imagry Israel

6
Illuminate Consul… ◀

6

What this shows Illuminate holds 6 patents at rank #40,833, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Illuminate

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,833 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Illuminate, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Illuminate ranks #606 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Scribe Therapeutics Inc. 49 Marelli Automotive Lighting Reutlingen (Germany) GmbH 49 Soreq Nuclear Research Center 49 UNIVERSITÉ Catholique DE Louvain 49

Illuminate's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Illuminate Consulting, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	16.7%
2019	1	16.7%
2022	1	16.7%
2024	2	33.3%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Illuminate Consulting, LLC patent most?

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 6

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 4

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

Top 4 of 4 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

Illuminate Consulting, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Illuminate Consulting, LLC's lead technology class is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #40,859 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Illuminate Consulting, LLC against IHS Global Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.8/100 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.