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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LG Innotek Co., Ltd. ranks #90 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 Innotek Co., Ltd. hold?

LG Innotek Co., Ltd. holds 3,977 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 198 technology areas.

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

LG Innotek Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 69.8 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 Innotek Co., Ltd. focus on?

LG Innotek Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 1,183 patents, ranking #9 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 198 CPC subclasses total.

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

LG Innotek Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Innotek Co., Ltd.'s patents?

LG Innotek Co., Ltd.'s patents average 16.4 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 LG Innotek 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 Innotek Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,977 granted patents across 198 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LG ranks #90 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,977 patents across 198 technology areas.

#90
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.8/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R90 · Foreign Corporation #90 · 3,977 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 4.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #90/49,997
NEAR-PEER Western Digital
CPC-WIDE G02B · 198 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. (±9 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 69.8 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 28.6 pts (41%) Velocity 6.3 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tokyo Electron · near

70
LG Innotek · this assignee

70
Blue Origin · near

70
Pony AI · near

70
Seoul Viosys · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows LG's Innovation Score is 69.8/100 (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 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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 Innotek Co., Ltd. received 1,435 grants versus 2,223 in 2015–2019 (-35% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 531 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 230. Lead class G02B accounts for 29.7% of the portfolio across 198 subclasses. Volume neighbours: United Technologies Corporation (#86) and Renesas Electronics Corporation (#94).

LG's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, LG Innotek Co., Ltd. moved from 946 to 898 grants (0.95x 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 #1,321. See the growth leaderboard.

United

4,091
United Microelect…

4,034
HON HAI Precision…

4,005
Western Digital

3,986
LG Innotek ◀

3,977
Monsanto Technolo…

3,956
Blackberry

3,953
Deere &

3,926
Renesas

3,882

What this shows LG holds 3,977 patents at rank #90, 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 #90 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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 G02B (Optical Elements), LG ranks #9 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Tokyo Electron Limited 70 Blue Origin, LLC 70 Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. 70 Pony AI Inc. 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. 16.4 avg Bestop, Inc. 16.4 avg GeoFrenzy, Inc. 16.4 avg Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce 16.4 avg

LG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 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.

View data table

LG Innotek Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	381	9.6%
2016	471	11.8%
2017	531	13.4%
2018	431	10.8%
2019	409	10.3%
2020	307	7.7%
2021	230	5.8%
2022	245	6.2%
2023	240	6.0%
2024	413	10.4%
2025partial year	319	8.0%

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

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1,183

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 883

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 816

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 735

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 734

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 573

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 399

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 339

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 327

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 260

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 259

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 253

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 234

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 218

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 158

Top 15 of 198 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 Innotek Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

LG Innotek Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 29.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #90 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare LG Innotek Co., Ltd. against United Technologies Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.8/100 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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