Where does Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. ranks #1,097 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 Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. hold?

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. holds 389 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s patents?

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Lutron Electronics Co., 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

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. focus on?

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 188 patents, ranking #15 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 389 granted patents across 62 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lutron ranks #1,097 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 389 patents across 62 technology areas.

#1,097
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1097 · US Corporation #1,097 · 389 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 389 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,097/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH KYB
CPC-WIDE H05B · 62 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: KYB Corporation (±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 Lutron’s 56.6 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 20.6 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Coinbase · near

57
Gwangju Institute… · near

57
Caterpillar… · near

57
Liebherr Machines… · near

57
Lutron · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lutron's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 Lutron?

Each dot is one of Lutron’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). Lutron’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Lutron's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. received 1 grants versus 388 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 117 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class H05B accounts for 48.3% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Allison Transmission, Inc. (#1,093) and Valeo Systemes Thermiques (#1,101).

Allison Transmiss…

390
Gen-probe Incorpo…

390
Mitsubishi Jidosh…

390
KYB

389
Schneider Electri…

389
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389
Lutron ◀

389
Japan Science and…

388
Valeo Systemes Th…

388

What this shows Lutron holds 389 patents at rank #1,097, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lutron

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,097 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lutron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Lutron ranks #15 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Liebherr Machines Bulle SA 57 Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd. 57 Gwangju Institute OF Science AND Technology 57 Coinbase, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. 18.3 avg SAP SE 18.3 avg ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH 18.3 avg Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd. 18.3 avg

Lutron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	60	15.4%
2016	65	16.7%
2017	99	25.4%
2018	117	30.1%
2019	47	12.1%
2021	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 188

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 149

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 49

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 41

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 40

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 38

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 29

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 28

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 28

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 26

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 24

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 16

H04B - Transmission 15

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 11

Top 15 of 62 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

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 48.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #1,097 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. against Allison Transmission, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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