Where does Laxco Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Laxco Incorporated ranks #20,002 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 Laxco Incorporated hold?

Laxco Incorporated holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Laxco Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Laxco Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 23.0 out of 100 (11th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Laxco Incorporated focus on?

Laxco Incorporated's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 4 patents, ranking #1,997 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Laxco Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Laxco Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Laxco Incorporated's patents?

Laxco Incorporated's patents average 9.4 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 Laxco Incorporated 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

Laxco Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Laxco ranks #20,002 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 3 technology areas.

#20,002
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 11th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.0/100): 9.4
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20002 · US Corporation #20,002 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,002/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Laboratoire HRA-Pharma
CPC-NARROW G02B · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 23.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Laboratoire HRA-Pharma (±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 Laxco’s 23.0 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 9.4 pts (41%) Velocity 1.9 pts (8%) Breadth 6.1 pts (26%) Claim depth 5.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Laxco Incorporated · this assignee

23
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Laxco's Innovation Score is 23.0/100 (11th percentile 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 Laxco?

Each dot is one of Laxco’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). Laxco’s own 9.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Laxco's grants concentrate

Laxco Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 28.6% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Laxco sits between Lumon Invest OY and Liberty Procurement Co. Inc..

Laxco's three-year grant acceleration

Laxco Incorporated shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Lumon Invest OY

14
Lunar Helium-3 Mi…

14
Luxexcel Holding…

14
Laboratoire Hra-p…

14
Lee Tech

14
Les Schwab Wareho…

14
Lexmark Internati…

14
Liberty Procureme…

14
Laxco Incorporated ◀

14

What this shows Laxco holds 14 patents at rank #20,018, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Laxco

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,018 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Laxco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 11th percentile higher than 11% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Laxco Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.1%
2016	2	14.3%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	1	7.1%
2019	4	28.6%
2021	3	21.4%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Laxco Incorporated patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

Top 3 of 3 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

Laxco Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Laxco Incorporated's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 28.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #20,002 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Laxco Incorporated against Lumon Invest OY, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 23.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.