Where does LG CNS Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LG CNS Co., Ltd. ranks #3,890 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 LG CNS Co., Ltd. hold?

LG CNS Co., Ltd. holds 93 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

LG CNS Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 48.6 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -92% 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 LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s patents?

LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.0 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 LG CNS Co., Ltd. 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

LG CNS Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does LG CNS Co., Ltd. focus on?

LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 25 patents, ranking #539 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 93 granted patents across 43 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LG ranks #3,890 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 93 patents across 43 technology areas.

#3,890
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.6/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3890 · Foreign Corporation #3,890 · 93 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 93 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,890/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intercontinental…
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, 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 LG’s 48.6 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 15.7 pts (32%) Velocity 0.7 pts (1%) Breadth 23.2 pts (48%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Contitech Transportb… · near

49
GE Healthcare · near

49
Inspire Medical… · near

49
Intematix · near

49
LG CNS · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows LG's Innovation Score is 48.6/100 (top 16% 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 LG?

Each dot is one of LG’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). LG’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where LG's grants concentrate

LG CNS Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 26.9% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (23 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, LG sits between Intermec IP Corp. and Overhead Door Corporation.

LG's three-year grant acceleration

LG CNS Co., Ltd. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Intermec IP

93
Intercontinental…

93
Kids II

93
Korea Basic Scien…

93
Labrador Diagnost…

93
Novomer

93
OMS Investments

93
Overhead Door

93
LG CNS ◀

93

What this shows LG holds 93 patents at rank #3,889, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near LG

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,889 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for LG, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), LG ranks #539 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

GE Healthcare Limited 49 Intematix Corporation 49 Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. 49 Contitech Transportbandsysteme GmBH 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC 15.0 avg Indian Institute OF Science 15.0 avg Dignity Health 15.0 avg Signode Industrial Group LLC 15.0 avg

LG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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LG CNS Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	16.1%
2016	17	18.3%
2017	23	24.7%
2018	17	18.3%
2019	14	15.1%
2020	1	1.1%
2021	4	4.3%
2023	2	2.2%

Which technologies does LG CNS Co., Ltd. patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 25

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 18

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 16

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

Top 15 of 43 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

LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

LG CNS Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 26.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #3,890 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare LG CNS Co., Ltd. against Intermec IP Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.6/100 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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