Where does Litegear, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Litegear, Inc. ranks #48,415 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 Litegear, Inc. hold?

Litegear, Inc. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Litegear, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Litegear, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Litegear, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Litegear, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Litegear, Inc.'s patents?

Litegear, Inc.'s patents average 12.8 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 Litegear, 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 US Corporation

Litegear, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Litegear, Inc. focus on?

Litegear, Inc.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 3 patents, ranking #864 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Litegear ranks #48,415 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 6 technology areas.

#48,415
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R48415 · US Corporation #48,415 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #48,415/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Linpac Packaging
CPC-NARROW H05B · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Linpac Packaging Limited (±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 Litegear’s 42.5 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 6.2 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (47%) Breadth 8.7 pts (20%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Litegear · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Litegear's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Litegear?

Each dot is one of Litegear’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). Litegear’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 13.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Litegear's grants concentrate

Litegear, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). By volume, Litegear sits between Linpac Packaging Limited and Liveoak Technologies, Inc..

Litegear's three-year grant acceleration

Litegear, Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Linpac Packaging

5
Lipham Trading

5
Lisega SE

5
List Technology

5
Litricity

5
Littlebird Connec…

5
Livechat Software

5
Liveoak

5
Litegear ◀

5

What this shows Litegear holds 5 patents at rank #48,341, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Litegear

By rank, the assignees closest to #48,341 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Litegear's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Litegear, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	20.0%
2020	1	20.0%
2022	1	20.0%
2023	1	20.0%
2024	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Litegear, Inc. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 3

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 3

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 3

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 2

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Litegear, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Litegear, Inc.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #48,415 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Litegear, Inc. against Linpac Packaging Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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

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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