Where does Lightbend, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lightbend, Inc. ranks #21,386 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 Lightbend, Inc. hold?

Lightbend, Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Lightbend, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lightbend, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 26.8 out of 100 (21st 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 Lightbend, Inc. focus on?

Lightbend, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 13 patents, ranking #1,946 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

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

Lightbend, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Lightbend, Inc.'s patents?

Lightbend, Inc.'s patents average 18.1 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 Lightbend, 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

Lightbend, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lightbend ranks #21,386 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 3 technology areas.

#21,386
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 21st percentile
by Innovation Score (26.8/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21386 · US Corporation #21,386 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,386/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Life Detection
CPC-NARROW H04L · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Life Detection Technologies, 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 Lightbend’s 26.8 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 9.1 pts (34%) Velocity 0.7 pts (3%) Breadth 6.1 pts (23%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LaCrosse Footwear · near

27
Lightbend · this assignee

27
Linde Material… · near

27
MSD Wellcome Trust… · near

27
S9 · near

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lightbend's Innovation Score is 26.8/100 (21st 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 Lightbend?

Each dot is one of Lightbend’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). Lightbend’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lightbend's grants concentrate

Lightbend, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Lightbend sits between Life Detection Technologies, Inc. and LioniX International BV.

Lightbend's three-year grant acceleration

Lightbend, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Life Detection

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Life Edit Therape…

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Lift-u Division o…

13
Ligchine Internat…

13
Lightelligence PTE

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Lightspace SIA

13
Limoss (Dongguan)

13
Lionix Internatio…

13
Lightbend ◀

13

What this shows Lightbend holds 13 patents at rank #21,393, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lightbend

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,393 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lightbend, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Lightbend ranks #1,946 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (27 here).

Linde Material Handling GmbH 27 S9, LLC 27 LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. 27 MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories PVT. Ltd. 27

Lightbend's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 21st percentile higher than 21% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Lightbend, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	15.4%
2019	7	53.8%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Lightbend, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

Top 3 of 3 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

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

Lightbend, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #21,386 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lightbend, Inc. against Life Detection Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.8/100 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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