Where does Lucifer Lighting Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lucifer Lighting Company ranks #12,532 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 Lucifer Lighting Company hold?

Lucifer Lighting Company holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Lucifer Lighting Company's Innovation Score?

Lucifer Lighting Company has an Innovation Score of 36.8 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lucifer Lighting Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lucifer Lighting Company's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Lucifer Lighting Company's patents?

Lucifer Lighting Company's patents average 14.6 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 Lucifer Lighting Company 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

Lucifer Lighting Company

Q: What technology areas does Lucifer Lighting Company focus on?

Lucifer Lighting Company's top technology area is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors) with 16 patents, ranking #109 of 1,094 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 7 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: F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lucifer ranks #12,532 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 7 technology areas.

#12,532
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.8/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12532 · US Corporation #12,532 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,532/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Language Line Services
CPC-NARROW F21S · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Language Line Services, 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.

How Lucifer’s 36.8 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 11.1 pts (30%) Velocity 7.5 pts (20%) Breadth 9.4 pts (26%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fender Musical… · near

37
Lucifer Lighting · this assignee

37
Nacuity Pharmaceutic… · near

37
Sakti3 · near

37
Westinghouse… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lucifer's Innovation Score is 36.8/100 (top 45% 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 Lucifer?

Each dot is one of Lucifer’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). Lucifer’s own 14.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Lucifer's grants concentrate

Lucifer Lighting Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Lucifer sits between Lock N Climb, LLC and Life Safety Distribution AG.

Lucifer's three-year grant acceleration

Lucifer Lighting Company shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Lock N Climb

24
Loma Vista Medical

24
Lookingglass Cybe…

24
Lotte Fine Chemic…

24
Language Line Ser…

24
Libest

24
Litl

24
Life Safety Distr…

24
Lucifer Lighting ◀

24

What this shows Lucifer holds 24 patents at rank #12,524, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lucifer

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,524 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lucifer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21S (Non-portable Lighting Devices), Lucifer ranks #109 of 1,094 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 37 Sakti3, Inc. 37 Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 37 Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB 37

Lucifer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 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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Lucifer Lighting Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	8.3%
2017	1	4.2%
2019	3	12.5%
2020	3	12.5%
2021	2	8.3%
2022	1	4.2%
2023	3	12.5%
2024	5	20.8%
2025partial year	4	16.7%

Which technologies does Lucifer Lighting Company patent most?

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 16

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

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 6

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Lucifer Lighting Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lucifer Lighting Company's lead technology class is F21S (Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21S
Ranked #12,532 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lucifer Lighting Company against Lock N Climb, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.8/100 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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