Where does Ledvance GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ledvance GMBH ranks #1,565 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 Ledvance GMBH hold?

Ledvance GMBH holds 265 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Ledvance GMBH's Innovation Score?

Ledvance GMBH has an Innovation Score of 56.9 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 Ledvance GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ledvance GMBH's recent grant velocity is +43% 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 Ledvance GMBH's patents?

Ledvance GMBH's patents average 16.5 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 Ledvance GMBH 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 Foreign Corporation

Ledvance GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Ledvance GMBH focus on?

Ledvance GMBH's top technology area is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 161 patents, ranking #15 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 265 granted patents across 50 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: F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ledvance ranks #1,565 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 265 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,565
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1565 · Foreign Corporation #1,565 · 265 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 265 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,565/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adeka
CPC-WIDE F21V · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adeka 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 Ledvance’s 56.9 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 19.3 pts (34%) Velocity 2.7 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evonik Degussa · near

57
Oceaneering… · near

57
THE Calany Holding… · near

57
Ledvance · this assignee

57
SNU R&DB Foundation · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ledvance's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (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 Ledvance?

Each dot is one of Ledvance’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). Ledvance’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ledvance's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ledvance GMBH received 152 grants versus 106 in 2015–2019 (+43% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 68 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 5. Lead class F21V accounts for 60.8% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company LLC (#1,561) and Alpine Electronics, Inc. (#1,569).

Ledvance's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ledvance GMBH moved from 156 to 64 grants (0.41x 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 #2,863. See the growth leaderboard.

Tenneco Automotiv…

266
Thule Sweden AB

266
Adeka

265
Climate

265
Precision Planting

265
Wright Medical Te…

265
Ledvance ◀

265
AI Incorporated

264
Alpine

264

What this shows Ledvance holds 265 patents at rank #1,565, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ledvance

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,565 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ledvance, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…), Ledvance ranks #15 of 1,842 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Evonik Degussa GMBH 57 Oceaneering International, Inc. 57 THE Calany Holding S.À R.L. 57 SNU R&DB Foundation 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

Intermolecular, Inc. 16.5 avg EndoChoice, Inc. 16.5 avg Oberthur Technologies 16.5 avg Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC 16.5 avg

Ledvance'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 · 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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Ledvance GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	1.9%
2017	12	4.5%
2018	21	7.9%
2019	68	25.7%
2020	51	19.2%
2021	37	14.0%
2022	24	9.1%
2023	25	9.4%
2024	15	5.7%
2025partial year	7	2.6%

Which technologies does Ledvance GMBH patent most?

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 161

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 157

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 138

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 100

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 59

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 48

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 20

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 16

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 11

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 10

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 6

Top 15 of 50 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

Ledvance GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ledvance GMBH's lead technology class is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 60.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #1,565 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ledvance GMBH against Tenneco Automotive Operating Company LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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