Where does Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC ranks #426 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 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC hold?

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC holds 1,064 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 244 technology areas.

What is Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's Innovation Score?

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC has an Innovation Score of 67.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's recent grant velocity is +18% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's patents?

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's patents average 17.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC focus on?

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's top technology area is B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering) with 155 patents, ranking #12 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 244 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Lawrence Livermore National Security, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 1,064 granted patents across 244 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: B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lawrence ranks #426 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,064 patents across 244 technology areas.

#426
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.6/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R426 · US Corporation #426 · 1,064 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #426/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Zoox
CPC-BROAD B33Y · 244 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Zoox, 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 Lawrence’s 67.6 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 24.1 pts (36%) Velocity 7.8 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allegro MicroSystems · near

68
Infineon Austria · near

68
Lawrence Livermore… · this assignee

68
Central South… · near

68
Viavi Solutions · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lawrence's Innovation Score is 67.6/100 (top 1% 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 Lawrence?

Each dot is one of Lawrence’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). Lawrence’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Lawrence's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC received 541 grants versus 457 in 2015–2019 (+18% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 132 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 82. Lead class B33Y accounts for 14.6% of the portfolio across 244 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hitachi High-tech Corporation (#422) and ServiceNow, Inc. (#430).

Lawrence's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC moved from 296 to 348 grants (1.18x 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 #825. See the growth leaderboard.

Hitachi High-tech

1,071
Novatek Microelec…

1,071
Hitachi High-

1,068
Hoffmann-la Roche

1,065
Zoox

1,064
Lawrence Livermor… ◀

1,064
Universal Display

1,058
RTX

1,055
Servicenow

1,052

What this shows Lawrence holds 1,064 patents at rank #426, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lawrence

By rank, the assignees closest to #426 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lawrence, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Lawrence ranks #12 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Central South University 68 Infineon Technologies Austria AG 68 Allegro MicroSystems, LLC 68 Viavi Solutions Inc. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 17.9 avg Dell Products L.P. 17.9 avg Xintec Inc. 17.9 avg The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte 17.9 avg

Lawrence's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	91	8.6%
2016	94	8.8%
2017	82	7.7%
2018	87	8.2%
2019	103	9.7%
2020	91	8.6%
2021	102	9.6%
2022	101	9.5%
2023	132	12.4%
2024	115	10.8%
2025partial year	66	6.2%

Which technologies does Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC patent most?

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 155

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 125

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 117

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 98

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 87

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 67

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 65

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 64

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 63

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 60

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 60

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 54

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 53

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 53

B01D - Separation 50

Top 15 of 244 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

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC's lead technology class is B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ), 14.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #426 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC against Hitachi High-tech Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.6/100 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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