Where does Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited ranks #1,018 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 Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited hold?

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited holds 431 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 106 technology areas.

What is Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's Innovation Score?

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited focus on?

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 109 patents. Grants appear in 106 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's patents?

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's patents average 13.4 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 Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) 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

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 431 granted patents across 106 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lite-on ranks #1,018 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 431 patents across 106 technology areas.

#1,018
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1018 · Foreign Corporation #1,018 · 431 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 431 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,018/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Zitiao…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 106 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. (±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
Institute of… · near

57
Lite-on (GUANGZHOU) · this assignee

57
Osram · near

57
Evonik Degussa · near

57
Oceaneering… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lite-on's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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.

How Lite-on's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited received 149 grants versus 278 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 65 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 9. Lead class G06F accounts for 25.3% of the portfolio across 106 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (#1,014) and Wobben Properties GmbH (#1,022).

Lite-on's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited moved from 149 to 65 grants (0.44x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,815. See the growth leaderboard.

Airbus Defence an…

433
Universal

433
Toyo Tire

432
Beijing Zitiao Ne…

431
Lite-on (Guangzho… ◀

431
Magna Mirrors of…

430
Airwatch

429
Dialog Semiconduc…

429
Wobben Properties

429

What this shows Lite-on holds 431 patents at rank #1,018, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lite-on

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,018 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Lite-on's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Osram GmbH 57 Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 57 Evonik Degussa GMBH 57 Oceaneering International, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG 13.4 avg Nidec Corporation 13.4 avg Archer-daniels-midland Company 13.4 avg Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg

Lite-on's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	51	11.8%
2016	55	12.8%
2017	55	12.8%
2018	52	12.1%
2019	65	15.1%
2020	40	9.3%
2021	44	10.2%
2022	36	8.4%
2023	20	4.6%
2024	9	2.1%
2025partial year	4	0.9%

Which technologies does Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 109

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 99

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 63

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 54

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 34

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 30

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 28

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 27

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 26

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 21

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 20

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 20

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 19

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 19

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 17

Top 15 of 106 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,018

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.9 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

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 25.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,018 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited against Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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