Where does Life Safety Distribution AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Life Safety Distribution AG ranks #12,520 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 Safety Distribution AG hold?

Life Safety Distribution AG holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Life Safety Distribution AG's Innovation Score?

Life Safety Distribution AG has an Innovation Score of 35.0 out of 100 (top 50% 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 Safety Distribution AG focus on?

Life Safety Distribution AG's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 12 patents, ranking #1,245 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Life Safety Distribution AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Life Safety Distribution AG's recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Life Safety Distribution AG's patents?

Life Safety Distribution AG's patents average 14.7 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 Life Safety Distribution AG 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

Life Safety Distribution AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Life ranks #12,520 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 16 technology areas.

#12,520
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.0/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12520 · Foreign Corporation #12,520 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,520/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Language Line Services
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Language Line Services, Inc. (±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 35.0 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 11.1 pts (32%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 14.1 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Life Safety… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Life's Innovation Score is 35.0/100 (top 50% 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 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Life's grants concentrate

Life Safety Distribution AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Life sits between Lucifer Lighting Company and Lonati S.P.A..

Life's three-year grant acceleration

Life Safety Distribution AG shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Lucifer Lighting

24
Language Line Ser…

24
Libest

24
Litl

24
Life Sciences Res…

24
Life Services

24
Lipocine

24
Lonati S P A

24
Life Safety Distr… ◀

24

What this shows Life holds 24 patents at rank #12,528, 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 #12,528 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Life's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Life Safety Distribution AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	25.0%
2017	6	25.0%
2018	4	16.7%
2019	4	16.7%
2021	3	12.5%
2024	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Life Safety Distribution AG patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 12

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

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

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

A62C - Fire-fighting 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Life Safety Distribution AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Life Safety Distribution AG's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #12,520 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Life Safety Distribution AG against Lucifer Lighting Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.0/100 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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