Where does Lotus Applied Technology, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lotus Applied Technology, LLC ranks #36,299 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 Lotus Applied Technology, LLC hold?

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's Innovation Score?

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's patents?

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's patents average 26.6 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 Lotus Applied Technology, LLC 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

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Lotus Applied Technology, LLC focus on?

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's top technology area is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General) with 7 patents, ranking #342 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lotus ranks #36,299 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 4 technology areas.

#36,299
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 26.6
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R36299 · US Corporation #36,299 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #36,299/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LogiQuip
CPC-NARROW C23C · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LogiQuip LLC (±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 Lotus’s 35.9 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 7.2 pts (20%) Velocity 6.7 pts (19%) Breadth 7.1 pts (20%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (42%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Zhongying Changjiang… · near

36
Longitude Semiconduc… · near

36
Lotus Applied… · this assignee

36
Standard Motor… · near

36
Syngenta · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lotus's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Lotus?

Each dot is one of Lotus’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). Lotus’s own 26.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lotus's grants concentrate

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Lotus sits between LogiQuip LLC and Luci Mobility, Inc..

Lotus's three-year grant acceleration

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

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7
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7
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7
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7
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7
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7
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7
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7
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7

What this shows Lotus holds 7 patents at rank #36,292, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lotus

By rank, the assignees closest to #36,292 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lotus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Lotus ranks #342 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Standard Motor Products 36 Syngenta Limited 36 Longitude Semiconductor S.a.r.l. 36 Zhongying Changjiang International NEW Energy Investment Co., Ltd. 36

Lotus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Lotus Applied Technology, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	14.3%
2016	5	71.4%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Lotus Applied Technology, LLC patent most?

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 7

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lotus Applied Technology, LLC's lead technology class is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #36,299 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lotus Applied Technology, LLC against LogiQuip LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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

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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