Where does Lee Tech LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lee Tech LLC ranks #20,005 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 Lee Tech LLC hold?

Lee Tech LLC holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Lee Tech LLC's Innovation Score?

Lee Tech LLC has an Innovation Score of 54.1 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lee Tech LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lee Tech LLC's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Lee Tech LLC's patents?

Lee Tech LLC's patents average 17.6 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 Lee Tech 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Lee Tech LLC

Q: What technology areas does Lee Tech LLC focus on?

Lee Tech LLC's top technology area is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture) with 7 patents, ranking #263 of 1,268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 16 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: C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lee ranks #20,005 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 16 technology areas.

#20,005
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.1/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20005 · US Corporation #20,005 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,005/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Laboratoire HRA-Pharma
CPC-FOCUS C12P · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% 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 Lee’s 54.1 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 (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 14.1 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bragi · near

54
DeRoyal Industries · near

54
Epicentrx · near

54
Lee Tech · this assignee

54
MagnaChip Semiconduc… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lee's Innovation Score is 54.1/100 (top 8% 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 Lee?

Each dot is one of Lee’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). Lee’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lee's grants concentrate

Lee Tech LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Lee sits between Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC and Lightening Energy.

Lee's three-year grant acceleration

Lee Tech LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Lunar Helium-3 Mi…

14
Luxexcel Holding…

14
Laboratoire Hra-p…

14
Laxco Incorporated

14
Les Schwab Wareho…

14
Lexmark Internati…

14
Liberty Procureme…

14
Lightening Energy

14
Lee Tech ◀

14

What this shows Lee holds 14 patents at rank #20,019, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lee

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,019 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lee, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…), Lee ranks #263 of 1,268 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Epicentrx, Inc. 54 DeRoyal Industries, Inc. 54 Bragi GmbH 54 MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd. 54

Lee's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Lee Tech LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.1%
2016	2	14.3%
2017	3	21.4%
2021	1	7.1%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	2	14.3%
2024	2	14.3%
2025partial year	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Lee Tech LLC patent most?

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 7

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

A23K - Fodder 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 4

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 4

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 3

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 2

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 2

B01D - Separation 2

C13K - Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources OR BY Hydrolysis OF Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides OR Polysaccharides 1

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

B30B - Presses IN General 1

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Lee Tech LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lee Tech LLC's lead technology class is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12P
Ranked #20,005 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lee Tech LLC against Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.1/100 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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