Where does Laird Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Laird Technologies, Inc. ranks #2,744 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 Laird Technologies, Inc. hold?

Laird Technologies, Inc. holds 141 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Laird Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Laird Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.7 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Laird Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Laird Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Laird Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Laird Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 Laird Technologies, 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

Laird Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Laird Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Laird Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components) with 59 patents, ranking #137 of 3,545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 141 granted patents across 58 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Laird ranks #2,744 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 141 patents across 58 technology areas.

#2,744
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.7/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2744 · US Corporation #2,744 · 141 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 141 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,744/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DynaEnergetics Europe
CPC-WIDE H05K · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DynaEnergetics Europe 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 Laird’s 56.7 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 17.1 pts (30%) Velocity 3.2 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bosch Automotive… · near

57
Flir Unmanned… · near

57
IQM Finland OY · near

57
Laird · this assignee

57
Nano Dimension · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Laird's Innovation Score is 56.7/100 (top 6% 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 Laird?

Each dot is one of Laird’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). Laird’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Laird's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Laird Technologies, Inc. received 41 grants versus 98 in 2015–2019 (-58% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 23 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 4. Lead class H05K accounts for 41.8% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (#2,740) and Synaptive Medical Inc. (#2,748).

Laird's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Laird Technologies, Inc. moved from 42 to 20 grants (0.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,748. See the growth leaderboard.

Dynaenergetics Eu…

141
International Tru…

141
Kemet

141
Kowa

141
Marathon Petroleum

141
Nxstage Medical

141
Optis Wireless Te…

141
Synaptive Medical

141
Laird ◀

141

What this shows Laird holds 141 patents at rank #2,744, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Laird

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,744 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05K (Printed Circuits)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Laird, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05K (Printed Circuits), Laird ranks #137 of 3,545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Inc. 57 Flir Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC 57 Nano Dimension Technologies, Ltd. 57 IQM Finland OY 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Hendrickson USA, L.L.C. 19.1 avg Space Systems/Loral, LLC 19.1 avg Stmicroelectronics PTE Ltd 19.1 avg SoundHound, Inc. 19.1 avg

Laird's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Laird Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	12.1%
2016	19	13.5%
2017	18	12.8%
2018	23	16.3%
2019	21	14.9%
2020	13	9.2%
2021	8	5.7%
2022	4	2.8%
2023	9	6.4%
2024	7	5.0%
2025partial year	2	1.4%

Which technologies does Laird Technologies, Inc. patent most?

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 59

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 44

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 33

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 12

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 10

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 9

H04B - Transmission 8

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 7

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 5

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 4

Top 15 of 58 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

Laird Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Laird Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components), 41.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05K
Ranked #2,744 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Laird Technologies, Inc. against DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.7/100 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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