Where does Lowe's Companies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lowe's Companies, Inc. ranks #4,962 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 Lowe's Companies, Inc. hold?

Lowe's Companies, Inc. holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Lowe's Companies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lowe's Companies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lowe's Companies, Inc. focus on?

Lowe's Companies, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 23 patents, ranking #1,823 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

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

Lowe's Companies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +40% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Lowe's Companies, Inc.'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 Lowe's Companies, 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

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 40 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lowe's ranks #4,962 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 40 technology areas.

#4,962
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4962 · US Corporation #4,962 · 70 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,962/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Laboratoire…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Laboratoire Francais du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (±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 Lowe's’s 54.3 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 14.7 pts (27%) Velocity 6.4 pts (12%) Breadth 22.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Jiangsu Xcmg… · near

54
Joy Global Surface… · near

54
JRD Communication… · near

54
Lowe's Companies · this assignee

54
WiSys Technology… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lowe's's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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 Lowe's?

Each dot is one of Lowe's’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). Lowe's’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lowe's's grants concentrate

Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 32.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Lowe's sits between Laboratoire Francais du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies and Namics Corporation.

Lowe's's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lowe's Companies, Inc. moved from 22 to 21 grants (0.95x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Laboratoire Franc…

70
Lehigh University

70
Leica Biosystems…

70
Leica Instruments…

70
Lumenis

70
Morehouse School…

70
Mastercraft Boat

70
Namics

70
Lowe's Companies ◀

70

What this shows Lowe's holds 70 patents at rank #4,962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lowe's

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lowe's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Lowe's ranks #1,823 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc. 54 Joy Global Surface Mining Inc 54 JRD Communication (Shenzhen) Ltd. 54 Jiangsu Xcmg Construction Machinery Research Institute Ltd. 54

Similar claim depth

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

Applied Materials Israel Ltd. 18.0 avg Pmc-sierra US, Inc. 18.0 avg Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems, Inc. 18.0 avg Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC 18.0 avg

Lowe's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Lowe's Companies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	5.7%
2016	1	1.4%
2017	3	4.3%
2018	9	12.9%
2019	8	11.4%
2020	10	14.3%
2021	4	5.7%
2022	6	8.6%
2023	6	8.6%
2024	9	12.9%
2025partial year	10	14.3%

Which technologies does Lowe's Companies, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 23

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 22

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

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 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 4

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 4

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 4

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

Top 15 of 40 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

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

Lowe's Companies, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 32.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,962 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lowe's Companies, Inc. against Laboratoire Francais du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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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