Where does Lehigh University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lehigh University ranks #4,959 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 Lehigh University hold?

Lehigh University holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 72 technology areas.

What is Lehigh University's Innovation Score?

Lehigh University has an Innovation Score of 55.4 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lehigh University focus on?

Lehigh University's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 9 patents, ranking #2,395 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 72 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lehigh University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lehigh University's recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Lehigh University's patents?

Lehigh University's patents average 17.4 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 Lehigh University 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

Lehigh University

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 72 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lehigh ranks #4,959 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 72 technology areas.

#4,959
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4959 · US Corporation #4,959 · 70 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,959/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Krohne
CPC-WIDE A61K · 72 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Krohne AG (±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 Lehigh’s 55.4 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 14.7 pts (27%) Velocity 5.2 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gates · near

55
Lehigh University · this assignee

55
Mastercard Canada ULC · near

55
Simmonds Precision… · near

55
Taipei Medical… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lehigh's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (top 7% 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 Lehigh?

Each dot is one of Lehigh’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). Lehigh’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Lehigh's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lehigh University received 21 grants versus 45 in 2015–2019 (-53% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 14 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class A61K accounts for 12.9% of the portfolio across 72 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Krohne AG (#4,955) and Lumenis Ltd. (#4,963).

Lehigh's three-year grant acceleration

Lehigh University shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Krohne

70
Lantiq Beteiligun…

70
Largan Digital

70
Laboratoire Franc…

70
Leica Biosystems…

70
Leica Instruments…

70
Lowe's Companies

70
Lumenis

70
Lehigh University ◀

70

What this shows Lehigh holds 70 patents at rank #4,959, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lehigh

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,959 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lehigh, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Lehigh ranks #2,395 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Mastercard Technologies Canada ULC 55 Simmonds Precision Products, Inc. 55 Gates Corporation 55 Taipei Medical University 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Coherus BioSciences, Inc. 17.4 avg Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. 17.4 avg Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. 17.4 avg Mediatek Inc. 17.4 avg

Lehigh's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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.

View data table

Lehigh University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.9%
2016	14	20.0%
2017	13	18.6%
2018	5	7.1%
2019	11	15.7%
2020	5	7.1%
2021	2	2.9%
2022	3	4.3%
2023	4	5.7%
2024	7	10.0%
2025partial year	4	5.7%

Which technologies does Lehigh University patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

B01D - Separation 7

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 7

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 7

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 6

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 6

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

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 4

Top 15 of 72 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Lehigh University's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lehigh University's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 12.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #4,959 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lehigh University against Krohne AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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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