Where does Life Fitness, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Life Fitness, LLC ranks #7,731 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 Life Fitness, LLC hold?

Life Fitness, LLC holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Life Fitness, LLC's Innovation Score?

Life Fitness, LLC has an Innovation Score of 32.8 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Life Fitness, LLC focus on?

Life Fitness, LLC's top technology area is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment) with 25 patents, ranking #50 of 1,021 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Life Fitness, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Life Fitness, LLC's recent grant velocity is +275% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Life Fitness, LLC's patents?

Life Fitness, LLC's patents average 12.9 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 Life Fitness, LLC 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

Life Fitness, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Life ranks #7,731 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 7 technology areas.

#7,731
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.8/100): 12.9
avg claims per patent: +275%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7731 · US Corporation #7,731 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,731/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kichler Lighting
CPC-NARROW A63B · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +275% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kichler Lighting 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.

How Life’s 32.8 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 13.0 pts (40%) Velocity 2.7 pts (8%) Breadth 9.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Centaurus Biopharma · near

33
Harbor Freight… · near

33
Life Fitness · this assignee

33
Shire-nps Pharmaceut… · near

33
Tosense · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Life's Innovation Score is 32.8/100 (42nd percentile 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 Life?

Each dot is one of Life’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). Life’s own 12.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Life's grants concentrate

Life Fitness, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 59.5% of grants classified under A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Life sits between Kichler Lighting LLC and Merus N.V..

Life's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Life Fitness, LLC moved from 27 to 11 grants (0.41x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Kichler Lighting

42
LGS Innovations

42
LIH Yann Industri…

42
Landa Labs (2012)

42
Linxens Holding

42
Maxwell

42
Melnor

42
Merus

42
Life Fitness ◀

42

What this shows Life holds 42 patents at rank #7,732, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Life

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,732 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Life, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training), Life ranks #50 of 1,021 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Tosense, Inc. 33 Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. 33 Shire-nps Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 33 Centaurus Biopharma Co., Ltd. 33

Life's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Life Fitness, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	8	19.0%
2020	12	28.6%
2021	7	16.7%
2022	2	4.8%
2023	4	9.5%
2024	5	11.9%
2025partial year	4	9.5%

Which technologies does Life Fitness, LLC patent most?

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 25

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

G01G - Weighing 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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Life Fitness, LLC's lead technology class is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment), 59.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63B
Ranked #7,731 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Life Fitness, LLC against Kichler Lighting LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.8/100 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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