Where does Lixel Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lixel Inc. ranks #18,853 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 Lixel Inc. hold?

Lixel Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Lixel Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lixel Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.6 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lixel Inc. focus on?

Lixel Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 12 patents, ranking #1,136 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Lixel Inc..

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

Lixel Inc.'s patents average 10.7 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 Lixel 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 Foreign Corporation

Lixel Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lixel ranks #18,853 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 9 technology areas.

#18,853
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.6/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18853 · Foreign Corporation #18,853 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,853/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Liebherr-components…
CPC-NARROW H04N · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Liebherr-components Deggendorf GMBH (±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 Lixel’s 46.6 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 9.6 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (43%) Breadth 10.6 pts (23%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lixel · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lixel's Innovation Score is 46.6/100 (top 20% 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 Lixel?

Each dot is one of Lixel’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). Lixel’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 12.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Lixel's grants concentrate

Lixel Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Lixel sits between Liebherr-components Deggendorf GMBH and Lockdowel, Inc..

Lixel's three-year grant acceleration

Lixel Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Liebherr-componen…

15
Lightsail Energy

15
Liphatech

15
Liveleaf Holdings

15
Loadhog

15
Locinox

15
Lock & Lock

15
Lockdowel

15
Lixel ◀

15

What this shows Lixel holds 15 patents at rank #18,837, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lixel

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,837 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Lixel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Lixel Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	13.3%
2022	5	33.3%
2023	4	26.7%
2024	3	20.0%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Lixel Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Lixel Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #18,853 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lixel Inc. against Liebherr-components Deggendorf GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.6/100 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

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.