Where does L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation ranks #24,681 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's Innovation Score?

L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 32.7 out of 100 (top 58% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's patents?

L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's patents average 18.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation

Q: How many patents does L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation hold?

L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 14 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation focus on?

L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's top technology area is H10F (INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation 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 PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: H10F (INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, L-3 ranks #24,681 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 14 technology areas.

#24,681
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 58%
by Innovation Score (32.7/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24681 · US Corporation #24,681 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,681/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Kusch + & KG
CPC-FOCUS H10F · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kusch + Co. Gmbh & Co. KG (±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
L-3 Communications C… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows L-3's Innovation Score is 32.7/100 (top 58% 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.

Where L-3's grants concentrate

L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 54.5% of grants classified under H10F (INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, L-3 sits between Kusch + Co. Gmbh & Co. KG and Lakehead University.

Kusch + & KG

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Kwivo

11
Küster Holding

11
L&O Hunting Group

11
L O F

11
Laboratoires THEA

11
Laboratories Viva…

11
Lakehead Universi…

11
L-3 Communication… ◀

11

What this shows L-3 holds 11 patents at rank #24,670, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near L-3

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,670 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Rad…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in L-3's primary technology class.

L-3's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 58% higher than 42% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	27.3%
2016	3	27.3%
2017	3	27.3%
2018	2	18.2%

Which technologies does L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics Corporation patent most?

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 6

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 5

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 2

G01J - MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY 2

B28B - SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS; SHAPING SLAG; SHAPING MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER 1

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

G03B - APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR 1

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 1

G09G - ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES 1

H02K - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,681

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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