Where does Lotes Co., Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lotes Co., Ltd ranks #1,505 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 Lotes Co., Ltd hold?

Lotes Co., Ltd holds 276 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Lotes Co., Ltd's Innovation Score?

Lotes Co., Ltd has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lotes Co., Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lotes Co., Ltd's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Lotes Co., Ltd's patents?

Lotes Co., Ltd's patents average 18.0 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 Lotes Co., Ltd 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

Lotes Co., Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Lotes Co., Ltd focus on?

Lotes Co., Ltd's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 260 patents, ranking #14 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 276 granted patents across 20 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lotes ranks #1,505 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 276 patents across 20 technology areas.

#1,505
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1505 · Foreign Corporation #1,505 · 276 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 276 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,505/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Conti Temic…
CPC-FOCUS H01R · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH (±1 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 Lotes’s 47.4 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 19.4 pts (41%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 15.8 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The United States… · near

47
Lotes · this assignee

47
Yuan ZE University · near

47
Geodynamics · near

47
Southco · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lotes's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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 Lotes?

Each dot is one of Lotes’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). Lotes’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lotes's grants concentrate

Lotes Co., Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 94.2% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (58 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Lotes sits between Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH and Peking University.

Lotes's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lotes Co., Ltd moved from 140 to 28 grants (0.20x 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 #3,094. See the growth leaderboard.

Conti Temic micro…

277
Nippon Shokubai

277
Ringcentral

277
Triad National Se…

277
Lotes ◀

276
Fuji Jukogyo

275
Haldor TOPSØE A/S

275
Lintec

275
Peking University

275

What this shows Lotes holds 276 patents at rank #1,505, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lotes

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,505 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lotes, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Lotes ranks #14 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Yuan ZE University 47 Geodynamics, Inc. 47 Southco, Inc. 47 The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Oregon Health & Science University 18.0 avg W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. 18.0 avg Bitzer Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH 18.0 avg Thorlabs, Inc. 18.0 avg

Lotes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% 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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Lotes Co., Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	3.3%
2016	20	7.2%
2017	27	9.8%
2018	46	16.7%
2019	58	21.0%
2020	48	17.4%
2021	34	12.3%
2022	17	6.2%
2023	9	3.3%
2024	2	0.7%
2025partial year	6	2.2%

Which technologies does Lotes Co., Ltd patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 260

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 72

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 11

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Lotes Co., Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lotes Co., Ltd's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 94.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #1,505 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lotes Co., Ltd against Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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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