Where does Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. ranks #41,430 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 Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. hold?

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2023, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.0 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.'s patents?

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.'s patents average 14.8 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 Lightspeed Commerce USA 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 Foreign Corporation

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. focus on?

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.'s top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2023. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lightspeed ranks #41,430 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 4 technology areas.

#41,430
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (36.0/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41430 · Foreign Corporation #41,430 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,430/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lifetime Industries
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2023 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lifetime Industries, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Orbis · near

36
Sunstar · near

36
Lightspeed Commerce… · this assignee

36
Spinal Generations · near

36
Swedish Match North… · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lightspeed's Innovation Score is 36.0/100 (top 48% 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.

Where Lightspeed's grants concentrate

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Lightspeed sits between Lifetime Industries, Inc. and Lincoln University.

Lightspeed's three-year grant acceleration

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Lifetime Industri…

6
Lifewave Biomedic…

6
Lightform

6
Lighthouse

6
Lightspeed Design

6
Linx Computationa…

6
Linares Spinal De…

6
Lincoln University

6
Lightspeed Commer… ◀

6

What this shows Lightspeed holds 6 patents at rank #41,449, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lightspeed

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,449 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Spinal Generations, LLC 36 Swedish Match North Europe AB 36 Orbis Technologies, Inc. 36 Sunstar Inc. 36

Lightspeed's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	33.3%
2022	1	16.7%
2023	3	50.0%

Which technologies does Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#41,430

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #41,430 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lightspeed Commerce USA Inc. against Lifetime Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.0/100 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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