Where does Lightsources Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lightsources Inc. ranks #48,391 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 Lightsources Inc. hold?

Lightsources Inc. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2016, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Lightsources Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lightsources Inc. has an Innovation Score of 6.8 out of 100 (0th 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 Lightsources Inc. focus on?

Lightsources Inc. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

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

Lightsources Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Lightsources Inc.'s patents?

Lightsources Inc.'s patents average 1.0 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 Lightsources 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

Lightsources Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2016. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lightsources ranks #48,391 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 0 technology areas.

#48,391
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 0th percentile
by Innovation Score (6.8/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R48391 · US Corporation #48,391 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #48,391/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lifesafety Power
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 6.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lifesafety Power (±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 Lightsources’s 6.8 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 6.2 pts (91%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
3D Lighting… · lowest

7
Christian Louboutin · near

7
Dezhou Weiqian… · near

7
Lightsources · this assignee

7
Navistar Canada · near

7
Personalizations · near

7

What this shows Lightsources's Innovation Score is 6.8/100 (0th 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 Lightsources?

Each dot is one of Lightsources’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). Lightsources’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 13.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Lightsources's grants concentrate

Lightsources Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . By volume, Lightsources sits between Lifesafety Power and Linhai Funiao Lighting Co., Ltd..

Lifesafety Power

5
Lifetrons Switzer…

5
Lifeworx

5
Lightcam

5
Likwid Concepts

5
Line Works

5
Linear Shaped

5
Linhai Funiao Lig…

5
Lightsources ◀

5

What this shows Lightsources holds 5 patents at rank #48,331, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lightsources

By rank, the assignees closest to #48,331 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lightsources, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (7 here).

Navistar Canada, Inc. 7 Personalizations, Inc. 7 Dezhou Weiqian Import and Export Co., Ltd 7 Christian Louboutin 7

Lightsources's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

7 0th percentile higher than 0% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Lightsources Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	100.0%

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

Ranked #48,391 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lightsources Inc. against Lifesafety Power, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 6.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.