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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lookout, Inc. ranks #2,347 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 Lookout, Inc. hold?

Lookout, Inc. holds 167 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Lookout, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lookout, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.0 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Lookout, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -27% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

Lookout, Inc.'s patents average 20.4 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 Lookout, 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

Lookout, Inc.

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

Lookout, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 128 patents. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 167 granted patents across 14 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lookout ranks #2,347 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 167 patents across 14 technology areas.

#2,347
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.0/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2347 · US Corporation #2,347 · 167 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 167 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,347/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Auburn University
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Auburn University (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AMO Development · near

53
Duksan Neolux · near

53
Lookout · this assignee

53
Shenzhen Smoore… · near

53
Technip France · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lookout's Innovation Score is 53.0/100 (top 9% 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.

Where Lookout's grants concentrate

Lookout, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 76.6% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (30 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2021. By volume, Lookout sits between Auburn University and Software GMBH.

Lookout's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lookout, Inc. moved from 36 to 53 grants (1.47x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #472. See the growth leaderboard.

Auburn University

167
BJ Energy Solutio…

167
Forschungszentrum…

167
J C Bamford Excav…

167
Materion

167
Rakuten Mobile

167
Societe BIC

167
Software

167
Lookout ◀

167

What this shows Lookout holds 167 patents at rank #2,347, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lookout

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,347 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lookout, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Technip France 53 Duksan Neolux Co., Ltd 53 AMO Development, LLC 53 Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

National Instruments Corporation 20.4 avg Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH 20.4 avg Synthetic Genomics, Inc. 20.4 avg Ablative Solutions, Inc. 20.4 avg

Lookout's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Lookout, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	18.0%
2016	19	11.4%
2017	15	9.0%
2018	10	6.0%
2019	20	12.0%
2020	9	5.4%
2021	7	4.2%
2022	17	10.2%
2023	15	9.0%
2024	21	12.6%
2025partial year	4	2.4%

Which technologies does Lookout, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 128

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 115

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 85

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

H04M - Telephonic Communication 9

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 5

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 4

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

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

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,347

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Lookout, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 76.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,347 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lookout, Inc. against Auburn University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.0/100 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.