Where does Lightforce Australia Pty Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lightforce Australia Pty Limited ranks #15,426 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 Lightforce Australia Pty Limited hold?

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's Innovation Score?

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited has an Innovation Score of 21.2 out of 100 (8th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's patents?

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's patents average 1.8 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 Lightforce Australia Pty Limited 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

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited

Q: What technology areas does Lightforce Australia Pty Limited focus on?

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's top technology area is B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General) with 2 patents, ranking #362 of 750 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lightforce ranks #15,426 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 6 technology areas.

#15,426
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 8th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.2/100): 1.8
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15426 · Foreign Corporation #15,426 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,426/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Level Home
CPC-NARROW B60Q · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 21.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Level Home, 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 Lightforce’s 21.2 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 10.3 pts (49%) Velocity 1.1 pts (5%) Breadth 8.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 1.1 pts (5%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lightforce Australia… · this assignee

21
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lightforce's Innovation Score is 21.2/100 (8th 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 Lightforce?

Each dot is one of Lightforce’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). Lightforce’s own 1.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Lightforce's grants concentrate

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 10.5% of grants classified under B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Lightforce sits between Level Home, Inc. and Living Proof, Inc..

Lightforce's three-year grant acceleration

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Level Home

19
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19
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19
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19
Lightlab Sweden AB

19
Liquidpower Speci…

19
Little Engine

19
Living Proof

19
Lightforce Austra… ◀

19

What this shows Lightforce holds 19 patents at rank #15,430, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lightforce

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,430 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices)

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

Lightforce's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 8th percentile higher than 8% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Lightforce Australia Pty Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	15.8%
2016	3	15.8%
2017	6	31.6%
2019	2	10.5%
2020	4	21.1%
2024	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Lightforce Australia Pty Limited patent most?

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 2

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 1

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 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lightforce Australia Pty Limited's lead technology class is B60Q (Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General), 10.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60Q
Ranked #15,426 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lightforce Australia Pty Limited against Level Home, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 21.2/100 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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