Where does Luminar, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Luminar, LLC ranks #8,636 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 Luminar, LLC hold?

Luminar, LLC holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2023, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Luminar, LLC's Innovation Score?

Luminar, LLC has an Innovation Score of 61.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Luminar, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Luminar, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Luminar, LLC's patents?

Luminar, LLC's patents average 25.2 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 Luminar, 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

Luminar, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Luminar, LLC focus on?

Luminar, LLC's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 33 patents, ranking #189 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2023. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Luminar ranks #8,636 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 20 technology areas.

#8,636
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 25.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8636 · US Corporation #8,636 · 37 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,636/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lenovo (United States)
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 20 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2023 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lenovo (United States) 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 Luminar’s 61.4 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 12.6 pts (21%) Velocity 18.0 pts (29%) Breadth 15.8 pts (26%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Harbin Institute OF… · near

61
Foxconn Technology… · near

61
Furukawa Electric · near

61
Hydro-Quebec · near

61
Luminar · this assignee

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Luminar's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (top 3% 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 Luminar?

Each dot is one of Luminar’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). Luminar’s own 25.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Luminar's grants concentrate

Luminar, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 89.2% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (20 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2023. By volume, Luminar sits between Lenovo (United States) Inc. and Miura Co., Ltd..

Luminar's three-year grant acceleration

Luminar, LLC shows 27 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Lenovo (United St…

37
Liebert

37
Life AS

37
Ligand Pharmaceut…

37
Maruzen Petrochem…

37
Match Group

37
Mitsui Chemicals…

37
Miura

37
Luminar ◀

37

What this shows Luminar holds 37 patents at rank #8,635, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Luminar

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,635 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Luminar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Luminar ranks #189 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. 61 Hydro-Quebec 61 Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. 61 Harbin Institute OF Technology 61

Luminar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Luminar, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	10	27.0%
2022	20	54.1%
2023	7	18.9%

Which technologies does Luminar, LLC patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 33

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

Top 15 of 20 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

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

Luminar, LLC's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 89.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #8,636 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Luminar, LLC against Lenovo (United States) Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.