Where does Lumileds LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lumileds LLC ranks #475 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 Lumileds LLC hold?

Lumileds LLC holds 930 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 87 technology areas.

What is Lumileds LLC's Innovation Score?

Lumileds LLC has an Innovation Score of 65.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lumileds LLC focus on?

Lumileds LLC's top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 526 patents, ranking #5 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 87 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lumileds LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lumileds LLC's recent grant velocity is +341% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Lumileds LLC's patents?

Lumileds LLC's patents average 16.9 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 Lumileds 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

Lumileds LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 930 granted patents across 87 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: H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lumileds ranks #475 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 930 patents across 87 technology areas.

#475
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.0/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +341%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R475 · US Corporation #475 · 930 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 930 grants
TOP-DECILE #475/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH IHI
CPC-WIDE H10H · 87 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +341% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: IHI Corporation (±2 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 Lumileds’s 65.0 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 23.6 pts (36%) Velocity 6.3 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Baxter International · near

65
Lenovo (United States) · near

65
Lumileds · this assignee

65
Ocado Innovation · near

65
Schneider Electric USA · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lumileds's Innovation Score is 65.0/100 (top 1% 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 Lumileds?

Each dot is one of Lumileds’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). Lumileds’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Lumileds's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lumileds LLC received 719 grants versus 163 in 2015–2019 (+341% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 212 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 4. Lead class H10H accounts for 56.6% of the portfolio across 87 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Uber Technologies, Inc. (#471) and Zeon Corporation (#479).

Lumileds's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lumileds LLC moved from 411 to 388 grants (0.94x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,345. See the growth leaderboard.

Uber

941
Agency FOR Scienc…

939
Fujikura

933
Wacom

933
Lumileds ◀

930
IHI

928
Level 3 Communica…

928
Verily Life Scien…

926
Zeon

926

What this shows Lumileds holds 930 patents at rank #475, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lumileds

By rank, the assignees closest to #475 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lumileds, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), Lumileds ranks #5 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Baxter International Inc. 65 Ocado Innovation Limited 65 Lenovo (United States) Inc. 65 Schneider Electric USA, Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 16.9 avg Entit Software LLC 16.9 avg Alpha and Omega Semiconductor International LP 16.9 avg Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc. 16.9 avg

Lumileds's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Lumileds LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	0.4%
2017	5	0.5%
2018	74	8.0%
2019	80	8.6%
2020	119	12.8%
2021	212	22.8%
2022	142	15.3%
2023	121	13.0%
2024	125	13.4%
2025partial year	48	5.2%

Which technologies does Lumileds LLC patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 526

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 292

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 225

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 218

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 205

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 190

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 150

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 106

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 73

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 67

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 63

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 56

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 54

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 52

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 49

Top 15 of 87 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

Lumileds LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lumileds LLC's lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 56.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #475 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lumileds LLC against Uber Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.0/100 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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