Where does Luminar Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Luminar Technologies, Inc. ranks #2,970 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 Technologies, Inc. hold?

Luminar Technologies, Inc. holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Luminar Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Luminar Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Luminar Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Luminar Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -16% 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 Luminar Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Luminar Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 23.4 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 Luminar Technologies, Inc. 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 Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Luminar Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Luminar Technologies, Inc.'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 110 patents. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: 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 #2,970 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 25 technology areas.

#2,970
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 23.4
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2970 · US Corporation #2,970 · 128 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,970/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Home BOX Office
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Home BOX Office, 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
Fuji Jukogyo · near

50
Hadasit Medical… · near

50
Luminar · this assignee

50
Repsol · near

50
Watergen · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Luminar's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Luminar's grants concentrate

Luminar Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 85.9% 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 2019 (42 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2017. By volume, Luminar sits between Home BOX Office, Inc. and New England Biolabs, Inc..

Luminar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Luminar Technologies, Inc. moved from 74 to 22 grants (0.30x 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 #3,001. See the growth leaderboard.

Home BOX Office

128
Ideal Industries

128
Ichikoh Industries

128
K&N Engineering

128
Microtech Knives

128
NCR Voyix

128
Netease (Hangzhou…

128
New England Biola…

128
Luminar ◀

128

What this shows Luminar holds 128 patents at rank #2,970, 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 #2,970 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Hadasit Medical Research Services AND Development Ltd. 50 Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 50 Repsol S.A. 50 Watergen Ltd. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.4 here).

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 23.4 avg Purdue Pharma L.P. 23.4 avg Insightec Ltd. 23.4 avg GE Video Compression, LLC 23.4 avg

Luminar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

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

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Luminar Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	6	4.7%
2018	16	12.5%
2019	42	32.8%
2020	32	25.0%
2023	8	6.3%
2024	14	10.9%
2025partial year	10	7.8%

Which technologies does Luminar Technologies, Inc. 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 110

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 30

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 26

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 24

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 23

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

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 22

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 20

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 16

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 12

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 5

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,970

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Luminar Technologies, Inc.'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), 85.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #2,970 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Luminar Technologies, Inc. against Home BOX Office, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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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