Where does Lacks Enterprises, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lacks Enterprises, Inc. ranks #8,238 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 Lacks Enterprises, Inc. hold?

Lacks Enterprises, Inc. holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lacks Enterprises, Inc. 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%).

What technology areas does Lacks Enterprises, Inc. focus on?

Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s top technology area is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 13 patents, ranking #292 of 1,969 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +71% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s patents?

Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s patents average 19.9 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 Lacks Enterprises, Inc. 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

Lacks Enterprises, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lacks ranks #8,238 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 29 technology areas.

#8,238
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.7/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: +71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8238 · US Corporation #8,238 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,238/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kason Industries
CPC-FOCUS B60R · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kason Industries, 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 Lacks’s 58.7 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 12.7 pts (22%) Velocity 15.0 pts (26%) Breadth 19.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Micron · near

59
Cooler Master · near

59
Ideal Industries… · near

59
Lacks Enterprises · this assignee

59
VigNet Incorporated · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lacks'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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Lacks?

Each dot is one of Lacks’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). Lacks’s own 19.9 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.

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

Where Lacks's grants concentrate

Lacks Enterprises, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Lacks sits between Kuang-chi Innovative Technology Ltd. and LS Automotive Technologies Co., Ltd..

Lacks's three-year grant acceleration

Lacks Enterprises, Inc. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Kuang-chi Innovat…

39
Kason Industries

39
Key Technology

39
Kid Stuff Marketi…

39
Lamberti SPA

39
Lingdong Technolo…

39
Longitude Flash M…

39
LS Automotive

39
Lacks Enterprises ◀

39

What this shows Lacks holds 39 patents at rank #8,237, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lacks

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,237 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60R (Vehicles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lacks, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60R (Vehicles), Lacks ranks #292 of 1,969 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Cooler Master Co., Ltd. 59 Ideal Industries Lighting LLC 59 Micron Technologies, Inc. 59 VigNet Incorporated 59

Lacks'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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Lacks Enterprises, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	10.3%
2017	5	12.8%
2018	3	7.7%
2019	2	5.1%
2020	3	7.7%
2021	3	7.7%
2022	7	17.9%
2023	6	15.4%
2024	5	12.8%
2025partial year	1	2.6%

Which technologies does Lacks Enterprises, Inc. patent most?

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 11

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 10

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 6

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 4

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 4

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 3

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

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 2

Top 15 of 29 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

Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lacks Enterprises, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60R (Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60R
Ranked #8,238 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lacks Enterprises, Inc. against Kuang-chi Innovative Technology Ltd., 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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