Where does Lighting Defense Group, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lighting Defense Group, LLC ranks #12,091 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 Lighting Defense Group, LLC hold?

Lighting Defense Group, LLC holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Lighting Defense Group, LLC's Innovation Score?

Lighting Defense Group, LLC has an Innovation Score of 53.2 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lighting Defense Group, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Lighting Defense Group, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Lighting Defense Group, LLC's patents?

Lighting Defense Group, LLC's patents average 18.5 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 Lighting Defense Group, 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

Lighting Defense Group, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Lighting Defense Group, LLC focus on?

Lighting Defense Group, LLC's top technology area is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 23 patents, ranking #111 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lighting ranks #12,091 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 32 technology areas.

#12,091
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12091 · US Corporation #12,091 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,091/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Legrand France
CPC-FOCUS F21V · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Legrand France (±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 Lighting’s 53.2 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 11.3 pts (21%) Velocity 10.8 pts (20%) Breadth 20.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shanghai Autoflight · near

53
BTL Healthcare A S · near

53
Institut Mines Telecom · near

53
Lighting Defense Group · this assignee

53
Shennan Circuits · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lighting's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (top 9% 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 Lighting?

Each dot is one of Lighting’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). Lighting’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lighting's grants concentrate

Lighting Defense Group, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 92% of grants classified under F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Lighting sits between Legrand France and LM Wind Power US Technology APS.

Lighting's three-year grant acceleration

Lighting Defense Group, LLC shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Legrand France

25
Letinar

25
LG Siltron Incorp…

25
Liebherr-mining E…

25
Lippert Component…

25
Liqxtal Technology

25
Livio

25
LM Wind Power US…

25
Lighting Defense… ◀

25

What this shows Lighting holds 25 patents at rank #12,087, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lighting

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,087 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lighting, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…), Lighting ranks #111 of 1,842 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Shennan Circuits Co., Ltd. 53 BTL Healthcare Technologies A.S. 53 Institut Mines Telecom 53 Shanghai Autoflight Co., Ltd. 53

Lighting's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Lighting Defense Group, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	4.0%
2021	7	28.0%
2022	3	12.0%
2023	8	32.0%
2024	2	8.0%
2025partial year	4	16.0%

Which technologies does Lighting Defense Group, LLC patent most?

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 21

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 19

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 13

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 12

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 10

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 10

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 10

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 9

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

Top 15 of 32 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

Lighting Defense Group, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lighting Defense Group, LLC's lead technology class is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 92% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #12,091 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lighting Defense Group, LLC against Legrand France, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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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