Where does LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. ranks #6,807 of 50,000 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 FUEL CELL Systems Inc. hold?

LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc.'s Innovation Score?

LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.1 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -96% 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 FUEL CELL Systems Inc.'s patents?

LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc.'s patents average 13.7 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 FUEL CELL Systems 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

LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc.

Q: What technology areas does LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. focus on?

LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc.'s top technology area is H01M (PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY) with 47 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: H01M (PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LG ranks #6,807 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 19 technology areas.

#6,807
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.1/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -96%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6807 · US Corporation #6,807 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,807/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Jasco Products
CPC-FOCUS H01M · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -96% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jasco Products Company Llc (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Calgary Scientific · near

37
Jiangsu Hansoh Pharm… · near

37
Johnson Matthey Fuel… · near

37
Kawai Gakki Seisakusho · near

37
LG FUEL CELL Systems · this assignee

37
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #6,807 of 50,000; Innovation Score 37.1/100 sits in the top 44% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Jasco Products Company Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. has been granted 49 US utility patents between 2015 and 2020, placing LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. at #6,807 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 19 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 13.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in H01M (PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY). As a US Corporation, LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, LG sits between Jiangsu University OF Science AND Technology (49 patents, rank #6,802) and Mekra Lang Gmbh & Co. KG (49 patents, rank #6,810) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 37.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 2 grants, compared with 47 in the 2015–2019 window, a -96% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc.'s 13.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 19 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Jiangsu Universit…

49
Jasco Products

49
KTM

49
King Abdullah Int…

49
Lallemand Hungary…

49
Lifescan Scotland

49
Macroblock

49
Mekra Lang & KG

49
LG FUEL CELL Syst… ◀

49

What this shows LG holds 49 patents at rank #6,806, 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 #6,806 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Calgary Scientific Inc. 37 Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho 37 Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Limited 37 Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd 37

LG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

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 FUEL CELL Systems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	16.3%
2016	7	14.3%
2017	7	14.3%
2018	17	34.7%
2019	8	16.3%
2020	2	4.1%

Which technologies does LG FUEL CELL Systems Inc. patent most?

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 47

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 47

C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C 12

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 9

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 8

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 6

C10L - FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G OR C10K; LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS; USE OF ADDITIVES TO FUELS OR FIRES; FIRE-LIGHTERS 5

B01D - SEPARATION 5

F02M - SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF 3

F02B - INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL 3

Y02B - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS 2

F02D - CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES 2

F01N - GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES 2

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 2

C04B - LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,807

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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