Where does Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. ranks #3,780 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 Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. hold?

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 54.7 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%).

What technology areas does Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. focus on?

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 66 patents, ranking #46 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +21% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patents average 16.3 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 Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. 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 Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 38 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: H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lite-on ranks #3,780 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 38 technology areas.

#3,780
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3780 · Foreign Corporation #3,780 · 96 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,780/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH J Morita MFG
CPC-FOCUS H10H · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: J. Morita MFG. Corp. (±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 Lite-on’s 54.7 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 15.8 pts (29%) Velocity 7.4 pts (14%) Breadth 21.8 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AAC Optics Solutions… · near

55
Aisin Seiki · near

55
Denali Therapeutics · near

55
Lite-on Opto… · this assignee

55
Midtronics · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lite-on's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (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 Lite-on?

Each dot is one of Lite-on’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). Lite-on’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lite-on's grants concentrate

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 68.8% of grants classified under H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (20 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Lite-on sits between J. Morita MFG. Corp. and Shenzhen SNC Opto Electronic Co., Ltd.

Lite-on's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. moved from 28 to 31 grants (1.11x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

J Morita MFG

96
John Bean

96
Karma Automotive

96
Knoll

96
Mitsubishi Tanabe…

96
Rogers

96
Rosemount Tank Ra…

96
Shenzhen SNC Opto

96
Lite-on Opto Tech… ◀

96

What this shows Lite-on holds 96 patents at rank #3,780, 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 #3,780 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…)

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). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), Lite-on ranks #46 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd. 55 Denali Therapeutics Inc. 55 Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha 55 Midtronics, Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg 16.3 avg Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH 16.3 avg Rockwell Collins, Inc. 16.3 avg American Air Liquide, Inc. 16.3 avg

Lite-on'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 · 2015–2025

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 Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.2%
2016	11	11.5%
2017	8	8.3%
2018	11	11.5%
2019	8	8.3%
2020	11	11.5%
2021	9	9.4%
2022	20	20.8%
2023	6	6.3%
2024	5	5.2%
2025partial year	3	3.1%

Which technologies does Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 66

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 58

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 13

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 13

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

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 10

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 6

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 5

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 5

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 4

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 3

Top 15 of 38 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

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 68.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #3,780 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lite-on Opto Technology (CHANGZHOU) Co., Ltd. against J. Morita MFG. Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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

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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

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