Where does Kichler Lighting LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kichler Lighting LLC ranks #7,725 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 Kichler Lighting LLC hold?

Kichler Lighting LLC holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Kichler Lighting LLC's Innovation Score?

Kichler Lighting LLC has an Innovation Score of 29.2 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Kichler Lighting LLC's recent grant velocity is +123% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Kichler Lighting LLC's patents average 3.1 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 Kichler 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

Kichler Lighting LLC

Q: What technology areas does Kichler Lighting LLC focus on?

Kichler Lighting LLC's top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 4 patents, ranking #712 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kichler ranks #7,725 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 8 technology areas.

#7,725
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.2/100): 3.1
avg claims per patent: +123%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7725 · US Corporation #7,725 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,725/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH K-fee System
CPC-NARROW H05B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +123% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: K-fee System 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 Kichler’s 29.2 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 13.0 pts (45%) Velocity 4.3 pts (15%) Breadth 10.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 1.9 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lamb Weston · near

29
Dispersive Networks · near

29
Kichler Lighting · this assignee

29
Sparton · near

29
Ningbo Futai Electric · near

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kichler's Innovation Score is 29.2/100 (30th 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 Kichler?

Each dot is one of Kichler’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). Kichler’s own 3.1 claims/patent is at or below the 12.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kichler's grants concentrate

Kichler Lighting LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 9.5% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Kichler sits between K-fee System GMBH and Life Fitness, LLC.

Kichler's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kichler Lighting LLC moved from 23 to 15 grants (0.65x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

K-fee System

42
Kokuyo

42
Kong

42
Korea Railroad Re…

42
LGS Innovations

42
LIH Yann Industri…

42
Landa Labs (2012)

42
Life Fitness

42
Kichler Lighting ◀

42

What this shows Kichler holds 42 patents at rank #7,728, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kichler

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,728 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kichler, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Kichler ranks #712 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

Dispersive Networks, Inc. 29 Sparton Corporation 29 Lamb Weston, Inc. 29 Ningbo Futai Electric Limited 29

Kichler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kichler Lighting LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	9.5%
2019	9	21.4%
2020	10	23.8%
2021	4	9.5%
2022	9	21.4%
2023	2	4.8%
2024	4	9.5%

Which technologies does Kichler Lighting LLC patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 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

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 1

Top 8 of 8 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

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

Kichler Lighting LLC's lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 9.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #7,725 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kichler Lighting LLC against K-fee System GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.2/100 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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