Where does Linear Technology Holding LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Linear Technology Holding LLC ranks #2,001 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 Linear Technology Holding LLC hold?

Linear Technology Holding LLC holds 200 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Linear Technology Holding LLC's Innovation Score?

Linear Technology Holding LLC has an Innovation Score of 54.9 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Linear Technology Holding LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Linear Technology Holding LLC's recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Linear Technology Holding LLC's patents?

Linear Technology Holding LLC's patents average 19.7 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 Linear Technology Holding 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

Linear Technology Holding LLC

Q: What technology areas does Linear Technology Holding LLC focus on?

Linear Technology Holding LLC's top technology area is H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof) with 70 patents, ranking #66 of 1,541 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 200 granted patents across 49 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Linear ranks #2,001 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 200 patents across 49 technology areas.

#2,001
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.9/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2001 · US Corporation #2,001 · 200 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 200 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,001/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CommScope of North…
CPC-WIDE H02M · 49 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina (±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 Linear’s 54.9 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 18.3 pts (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 24.7 pts (45%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Linear Technology… · this assignee

55
Neo Wireless · near

55
University OF… · near

55
ZenPayroll · near

55
Nippon Kayaku · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Linear's Innovation Score is 54.9/100 (top 7% 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 Linear?

Each dot is one of Linear’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). Linear’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Linear's grants concentrate

Linear Technology Holding LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 35% of grants classified under H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (40 grants) versus a trough of 28 in 2015. By volume, Linear sits between Wolfspeed, Inc. and Skydio, Inc..

Wolfspeed

201
Commscope of Nort…

200
Dongguan Luxshare

200
Enevate

200
Megachips

200
Razor USA

200
Signode Industria…

200
Skydio

200
Linear Technology… ◀

200

What this shows Linear holds 200 patents at rank #2,001, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Linear

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,001 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Linear, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC), Linear ranks #66 of 1,541 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

University OF Science AND Technology OF China 55 ZenPayroll, Inc. 55 Neo Wireless LLC 55 Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Cellco Partnership 19.7 avg Netflix, Inc. 19.7 avg Aruba Networks, Inc. 19.7 avg Yahoo Holdings, Inc. 19.7 avg

Linear's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Linear Technology Holding LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	28	14.0%
2016	40	20.0%
2017	40	20.0%
2018	28	14.0%
2019	35	17.5%
2020	29	14.5%

Which technologies does Linear Technology Holding LLC patent most?

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 70

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 42

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

H04B - Transmission 25

H03K - Pulse Technique 24

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 23

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 21

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 21

H03F - Amplifiers 16

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 16

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 15

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 14

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

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

Top 15 of 49 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

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Linear Technology Holding LLC's lead technology class is H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;), 35% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02M
Ranked #2,001 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Linear Technology Holding LLC against Wolfspeed, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.9/100 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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