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Lite-on Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lite-on ranks #24,716 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 3 technology areas.

#24,716
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.5/100)
13.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24716 · Foreign Corporation #24,716 · 11 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
  • MID-PACK #24,716/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Lianhong ART
  • CPC-NARROW H01H · 3 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 27.5/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lianhong ART 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.

How Lite-on’s 27.5 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Lite-on

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Lite-on's Innovation Score is 27.5/100 (24th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

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 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Lite-on vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 10.910.91111.1 010203040 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Lianhong ART Co., Ltd. - 11, 7.45Lianhong ARTLIM Innovations, Inc. - 11, 18.64LIM InnovationsLimagrain Europe - 11, 15.82Limagrain EuropeLimited Liability Company “RADIO GIGABIT” - 11, 16.45Liability “Radio…Litek Enterprise Co., Ltd. - 11, 1Litek EnterpriseLivetv, LLC - 11, 30.91LivetvLMD Applied Science, LLC - 11, 18.27LMD Applied Scien…Lohr Electromecanique - 11, 18.09Lohr Electromecan…Lite-on Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., Ltd. - 11, 13.91Lite-on Technolog…
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 Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Lite-on sits between Lianhong ART Co., Ltd. and Lohr Electromecanique.

Lite-on's three-year grant acceleration

Lite-on Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Who files at Lite-on's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Lite-on holds 11 patents at rank #24,688, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Lite-on

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,688 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01H (Electric Switches)

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

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

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

28 24th percentile higher than 24% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Lite-on Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2020 2 18.2%
2021 4 36.4%
2022 2 18.2%
2023 2 18.2%
2025partial year 1 9.1%

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

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

  • Lite-on Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01H
  • Ranked #24,716 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Lite-on Technology (Chang Zhou) Co., Ltd. against Lianhong ART Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 27.5/100 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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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

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.