Where does LY Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LY Corporation ranks #18,867 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 LY Corporation hold?

LY Corporation holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is LY Corporation's Innovation Score?

LY Corporation has an Innovation Score of 51.0 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does LY Corporation focus on?

LY Corporation's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 9 patents, ranking #2,562 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is LY Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for LY Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for LY Corporation's patents?

LY Corporation's patents average 16.1 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 LY Corporation 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 Foreign Corporation

LY Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LY ranks #18,867 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 11 technology areas.

#18,867
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.0/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18867 · Foreign Corporation #18,867 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,867/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lambda Nu Technology
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lambda Nu Technology LLC (±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 LY’s 51.0 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 9.6 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 11.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LY · this assignee

51
Maxar Intelligence · near

51
Whill · near

51
CareFusion 2200 · near

51
Irdeto B V · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows LY's Innovation Score is 51.0/100 (top 12% 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 LY?

Each dot is one of LY’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). LY’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where LY's grants concentrate

LY Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). By volume, LY sits between Lockdowel, Inc. and LeapYear Technologies, Inc..

LY's three-year grant acceleration

LY Corporation shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Lockdowel

15
Longeviti Neuro S…

15
Lotte

15
Lvmh Fragrance Br…

15
Lambda Nu Technol…

15
Lange Uhren

15
Laser Aiming Syst…

15
Leapyear

15
LY ◀

15

What this shows LY holds 15 patents at rank #18,845, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near LY

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,845 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for LY, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), LY ranks #2,562 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Whill, Inc. 51 Maxar Intelligence Inc. 51 CareFusion 2200, Inc. 51 Irdeto B.V. 51

LY's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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LY Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	6	40.0%
2025partial year	9	60.0%

Which technologies does LY Corporation patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H04Q - Selecting 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 11 of 11 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

LY Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

LY Corporation's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #18,867 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare LY Corporation against Lockdowel, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.0/100 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

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.