Where does LSC Communications US, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LSC Communications US, LLC ranks #14,753 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 LSC Communications US, LLC hold?

LSC Communications US, LLC holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is LSC Communications US, LLC's Innovation Score?

LSC Communications US, LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does LSC Communications US, LLC focus on?

LSC Communications US, LLC's top technology area is B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing) with 8 patents, ranking #6 of 35 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is LSC Communications US, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LSC Communications US, LLC's recent grant velocity is -67% 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 LSC Communications US, LLC's patents?

LSC Communications US, LLC's patents average 15.4 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 LSC Communications US, 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

LSC Communications US, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LSC ranks #14,753 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 17 technology areas.

#14,753
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14753 · US Corporation #14,753 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,753/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lamello
CPC-FOCUS B42F · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lamello AG (±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 LSC’s 35.5 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 10.5 pts (30%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 14.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LSC Communications US · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows LSC's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 LSC?

Each dot is one of LSC’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). LSC’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where LSC's grants concentrate

LSC Communications US, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, LSC sits between Leedarson America Inc. and Ledlenser Corporation Ltd..

LSC's three-year grant acceleration

LSC Communications US, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Leedarson America

20
Libo Cosmetics

20
Limefuel

20
Liveu

20
Lavalley Industri…

20
Lamello

20
Leddartech

20
Ledlenser

20
LSC Communication… ◀

20

What this shows LSC holds 20 patents at rank #14,745, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near LSC

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,745 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached Together)

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

LSC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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LSC Communications US, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	6	30.0%
2018	7	35.0%
2019	2	10.0%
2020	4	20.0%
2022	1	5.0%

Which technologies does LSC Communications US, LLC patent most?

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 8

B42C - Bookbinding 5

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 5

B42P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Books, Filing Appliances OR THE Like 3

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 2

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 2

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

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 1

Top 15 of 17 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

LSC Communications US, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

LSC Communications US, LLC's lead technology class is B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42F
Ranked #14,753 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare LSC Communications US, LLC against Leedarson America Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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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