Where does LG Electronics Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LG Electronics Inc. ranks #4 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 Electronics Inc. hold?

LG Electronics Inc. holds 32,607 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 380 technology areas.

What is LG Electronics Inc.'s Innovation Score?

LG Electronics Inc. has an Innovation Score of 74.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does LG Electronics Inc. focus on?

LG Electronics Inc.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 11,202 patents, ranking #3 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 380 CPC subclasses total.

Is LG Electronics Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LG Electronics Inc.'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 LG Electronics Inc.'s patents?

LG Electronics Inc.'s patents average 12.1 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 Electronics 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 Foreign Corporation

LG Electronics Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32,607 granted patents across 380 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LG ranks #4 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32,607 patents across 380 technology areas.

#4
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.4/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4 · Foreign Corporation #4 · 32,607 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 33K grants
TOP-DECILE #4/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Taiwan Semiconductor…
CPC-BROAD H04W · 380 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (±1,566 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 74.4 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 35.9 pts (48%) Velocity 6.3 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nicoventures Trading · near

74
LG · this assignee

74
Sony Semiconductor… · near

74
Cisco Technology · near

74
BOE Technology Group · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows LG's Innovation Score is 74.4/100 (top 1% 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 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 19.1 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.

How LG's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, LG Electronics Inc. received 15,290 grants versus 15,242 in 2015–2019 (+0% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 3,314 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 2,602. Lead class H04W accounts for 34.4% of the portfolio across 380 subclasses.

LG's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, LG Electronics Inc. moved from 9,594 to 9,010 grants (0.94x 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 #1,366. See the growth leaderboard.

Samsung

106,890
International Bus…

72,926
Canon

34,378
LG ◀

32,607
Taiwan Semiconduc…

31,041
Apple

30,560
Qualcomm Incorpor…

30,354
Intel

27,498
Microsoft Technol…

24,392

What this shows LG sits among the ten largest US patent holders, a tier dominated by electronics and semiconductor multinationals.

Other top-10 patent holders

The other largest US assignees by granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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 H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), LG ranks #3 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation 74 Cisco Technology, Inc. 74 Nicoventures Trading Limited 74 BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.1 here).

Alpine Electronics, Inc. 12.1 avg Bauer Maschinen GmbH 12.1 avg Delphi Technologies 12.1 avg Peking University 12.1 avg

LG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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LG Electronics Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2,717	8.3%
2016	2,935	9.0%
2017	3,104	9.5%
2018	3,172	9.7%
2019	3,314	10.2%
2020	3,190	9.8%
2021	3,090	9.5%
2022	3,206	9.8%
2023	2,602	8.0%
2024	3,202	9.8%
2025partial year	2,075	6.4%

Which technologies does LG Electronics Inc. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11,202

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9,062

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4,055

H04B - Transmission 3,654

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3,201

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 1,538

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1,512

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1,342

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 1,169

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1,000

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 978

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 699

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 679

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 654

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 631

Top 15 of 380 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 Electronics Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

LG Electronics Inc.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 34.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #4 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
LG Electronics Inc. is a top-10 global holder - see how it stacks up against Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., another of the largest patent portfolios. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.4/100 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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