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Locus Location Systems, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Locus ranks #22,919 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 2 technology areas.

#22,919
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
29th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.9/100)
27.1
avg claims per patent
-50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22919 · US Corporation #22,919 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
  • MID-PACK #22,919/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH LiquidPiston
  • CPC-NARROW H04W · 2 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 28.9/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 27.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -50% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LiquidPiston, Inc. (±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 Locus’s 28.9 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 Locus

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

score

What this shows Locus's Innovation Score is 28.9/100 (29th 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 Locus?

Each dot is one of Locus’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). Locus’s own 27.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Locus 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 11.911.91212.1 010203040 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent LiquidPiston, Inc. - 12, 10.42LiquidpistonLiteboxer Technologies, Inc. - 12, 8.83LiteboxerLiveClips LLC - 12, 23.92LiveclipsLockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Inc. - 12, 16.5Lockheed Martin C…Ludong University - 12, 7.58Ludong UniversityLuminus Devices, Inc. - 12, 13.33Luminus DevicesLundbeck La Jolla Research Center, Inc. - 12, 13.5Lundbeck La Jolla…M.S.T. Medical Surgery Technologies Ltd - 12, 38.17M S T Medical Sur…Locus Location Systems, LLC - 12, 27.08Locus Location Sy…
Locus vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Locus's grants concentrate

Locus Location Systems, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Locus sits between LiquidPiston, Inc. and M.S.T. Medical Surgery Technologies Ltd.

Who files at Locus's volume?

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

patents

What this shows Locus holds 12 patents at rank #22,917, 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 Locus

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,917 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Locus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 29th percentile higher than 29% 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 · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Locus Location Systems, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 1 8.3%
2016 2 16.7%
2017 2 16.7%
2018 1 8.3%
2019 2 16.7%
2020 2 16.7%
2021 2 16.7%

Which technologies does Locus Location Systems, LLC patent most?

Top 2 of 2 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

Locus Location Systems, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Locus Location Systems, LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
  • Ranked #22,919 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Locus Location Systems, LLC against LiquidPiston, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 28.9/100 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

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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

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.