Where does LPE S.p.a. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LPE S.p.a. ranks #24,727 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does LPE S.p.a. hold?

LPE S.p.a. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is LPE S.p.a.'s Innovation Score?

LPE S.p.a. has an Innovation Score of 27.7 out of 100 (top 76% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is LPE S.p.a.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LPE S.p.a.'s recent grant velocity is +33% 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 LPE S.p.a.'s patents?

LPE S.p.a.'s patents average 14.4 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 LPE S.p.a. 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

LPE S.p.a.

Q: What technology areas does LPE S.p.a. focus on?

LPE S.p.a.'s top technology area is C30B (SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE ; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WI) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C30B (SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LPE ranks #24,727 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 4 technology areas.

#24,727
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 76%
by Innovation Score (27.7/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24727 · Foreign Corporation #24,727 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,727/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Lake Shore Cryotronics
CPC-NARROW C30B · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lake Shore Cryotronics, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LPE S p a · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows LPE's Innovation Score is 27.7/100 (top 76% 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 LPE's grants concentrate

LPE S.p.a. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C30B (SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, LPE sits between LOHR Electromecanique and Lambda:4 Entwicklungen Gmbh.

LPE's three-year grant acceleration

LPE S.p.a. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

LOHR Electromecan…

11
LOUD

11
Loughborough Univ…

11
Louis Garneau Spo…

11
Luxul Technolocy…

11
Lanova Medicines

11
Lake Shore Cryotr…

11
Lambda:4 Entwickl…

11
LPE S P A ◀

11

What this shows LPE holds 11 patents at rank #24,696, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near LPE

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,696 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C30B (Single-crystal Growth)

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

LPE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 76% higher than 24% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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LPE S.p.a. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	9.1%
2019	2	18.2%
2020	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	1	9.1%
2025partial year	4	36.4%

Which technologies does LPE S.p.a. patent most?

C30B - SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE ; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WI 11

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 11

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 6

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,727

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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