Where does L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation ranks #16,942 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 L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation hold?

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's Innovation Score?

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 37.7 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's recent grant velocity is +83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's patents?

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's patents average 19.6 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 L3 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation

Q: What technology areas does L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation focus on?

L3 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 9 patents, ranking #283 of 1,370 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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, L3 ranks #16,942 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 16 technology areas.

#16,942
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.7/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: +83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16942 · US Corporation #16,942 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,942/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kittrich
CPC-FOCUS H10F · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kittrich Corporation (±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 L3’s 37.7 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 10.0 pts (27%) Velocity 1.8 pts (5%) Breadth 14.1 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
L3 Cincinnati · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows L3's Innovation Score is 37.7/100 (top 43% 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 L3?

Each dot is one of L3’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). L3’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

L3 vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where L3's grants concentrate

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 52.9% 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 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, L3 sits between Kittrich Corporation and LDR Medical, S.A.S..

L3's three-year grant acceleration

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Kittrich

17
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17
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17
Kyocera AVX Compo…

17
Laerdal Medical AS

17
Lantronix

17
Lanxess Internati…

17
LDR Medical S

17
L3 Cincinnati ◀

17

What this shows L3 holds 17 patents at rank #16,941, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near L3

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,941 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in L3's primary technology class.

L3's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

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

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L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	17.6%
2019	3	17.6%
2020	4	23.5%
2021	4	23.5%
2022	3	17.6%

Which technologies does L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation patent most?

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 9

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 1

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Top 15 of 16 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

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation's lead technology class is H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation), 52.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10F
Ranked #16,942 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare L3 Cincinnati Electronics Corporation against Kittrich Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.7/100 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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