Where does Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. ranks #1,823 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 Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. hold?

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. holds 222 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.0 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patents?

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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.

How is the Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. 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

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. focus on?

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 55 patents, ranking #72 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 222 granted patents across 51 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leviton ranks #1,823 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 222 patents across 51 technology areas.

#1,823
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.0/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1823 · US Corporation #1,823 · 222 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 222 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,823/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Konami Gaming
CPC-WIDE H05B · 51 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Konami Gaming, 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 Leviton’s 63.0 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 18.7 pts (30%) Velocity 6.8 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Leviton Manufacturing · this assignee

63
University of South… · near

63
UTI · near

63
BAE Systems… · near

63
First Solar · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leviton's Innovation Score is 63.0/100 (top 2% 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 Leviton?

Each dot is one of Leviton’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). Leviton’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Leviton's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. received 91 grants versus 117 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 13. Lead class H05B accounts for 24.8% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Airgain, Inc. (#1,819) and Angel Co., Ltd. (#1,827).

Leviton's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. moved from 58 to 59 grants (1.02x 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 #1,140. See the growth leaderboard.

Airgain

223
Gentherm Incorpor…

223
Georgetown Univer…

223
Konami Gaming

222
Mitsubishi Power

222
Onesubsea IP UK

222
Wing Aviation

222
Leviton Manufactu… ◀

222
Angel

221

What this shows Leviton holds 222 patents at rank #1,823, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leviton

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,823 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Leviton, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Leviton ranks #72 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

University of South Florida 63 UTI Inc. 63 First Solar, Inc. 63 BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.9 here).

STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS 20.9 avg Analog Photonics LLC 20.9 avg Securus Technologies, LLC 21.0 avg W.L. Gore & Associates GmbH 21.0 avg

Leviton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	5.9%
2016	26	11.7%
2017	26	11.7%
2018	26	11.7%
2019	26	11.7%
2020	17	7.7%
2021	15	6.8%
2022	18	8.1%
2023	20	9.0%
2024	21	9.5%
2025partial year	14	6.3%

Which technologies does Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 55

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 51

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 44

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 42

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 31

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 22

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 21

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 21

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 16

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 12

H04Q - Selecting 11

Top 15 of 51 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

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 24.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #1,823 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. against Airgain, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.0/100 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

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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

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