Where does Li Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Li Industries, Inc. ranks #32,339 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 Li Industries, Inc. hold?

Li Industries, Inc. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Li Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Li Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Li Industries, Inc. focus on?

Li Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management) with 7 patents, ranking #120 of 1,160 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Li Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Li Industries, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Li Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Li Industries, Inc.'s patents average 27.5 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 Li Industries, 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

Li Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Li ranks #32,339 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 11 technology areas.

#32,339
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 27.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32339 · US Corporation #32,339 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #32,339/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Leuze + KG
CPC-FOCUS Y02W · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Leuze electronic GmbH + Co. KG (±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 Li’s 54.3 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 7.6 pts (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 11.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Li Industries · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Li's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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 Li?

Each dot is one of Li’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). Li’s own 27.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Li's grants concentrate

Li Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 87.5% of grants classified under Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management). By volume, Li sits between Leuze electronic GmbH + Co. KG and Lifefactory, Inc..

Li's three-year grant acceleration

Li Industries, Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Leuze + KG

8
Leviticus Cardio

8
Lewis Hyman

8
Li &

8
Libertine FPE

8
Liberty Reach

8
Lieber Institute

8
Lifefactory

8
Li Industries ◀

8

What this shows Li holds 8 patents at rank #32,355, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Li

By rank, the assignees closest to #32,355 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewa…)

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

Li's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Li Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	2	25.0%
2024	2	25.0%
2025partial year	4	50.0%

Which technologies does Li Industries, Inc. patent most?

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 7

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 7

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 5

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 2

B01D - Separation 2

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Li Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Li Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02W
Ranked #32,339 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Li Industries, Inc. against Leuze electronic GmbH + Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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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