Where does Musco Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Musco Corporation ranks #4,016 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 Musco Corporation hold?

Musco Corporation holds 90 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Musco Corporation's Innovation Score?

Musco Corporation has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Musco Corporation's recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Musco Corporation's patents?

Musco Corporation's patents average 10.9 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 Musco 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 US Corporation

Musco Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Musco Corporation focus on?

Musco Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 27 patents, ranking #78 of 1,359 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 90 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Musco ranks #4,016 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 90 patents across 35 technology areas.

#4,016
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 10.9
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4016 · US Corporation #4,016 · 90 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 90 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,016/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lashify
CPC-FOCUS F21Y · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lashify, 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 Musco’s 44.3 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 15.6 pts (35%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 20.9 pts (47%) Claim depth 6.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asahi Seiko · near

44
Bettcher Industries · near

44
Canon U S Life… · near

44
John Snow Labs · near

44
Musco · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Musco's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Musco?

Each dot is one of Musco’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). Musco’s own 10.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Musco's grants concentrate

Musco Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Musco sits between Lashify, Inc. and Pierburg Pump Technology GMBH.

Musco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Musco Corporation moved from 42 to 8 grants (0.19x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Lashify

90
Medacta Internati…

90
Mirise

90
Mckesson

90
Nanjing Tech Univ…

90
NKT Photonics A/S

90
Nuro

90
Pierburg Pump Tec…

90
Musco ◀

90

What this shows Musco holds 90 patents at rank #4,016, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Musco

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,016 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Musco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k), Musco ranks #78 of 1,359 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. 44 Bettcher Industries, Inc. 44 Asahi Seiko Co., Ltd. 44 John Snow Labs, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.9 here).

Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG 10.9 avg Hoya Lens Thailand Ltd. 10.9 avg East China Normal University 10.9 avg Spanx, LLC 10.9 avg

Musco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

Musco Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	17.8%
2016	6	6.7%
2017	10	11.1%
2018	8	8.9%
2019	16	17.8%
2020	21	23.3%
2021	5	5.6%
2022	1	1.1%
2023	6	6.7%
2024	1	1.1%

Which technologies does Musco Corporation patent most?

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 27

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 27

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 23

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 22

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 22

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

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 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

Top 15 of 35 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

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

Musco Corporation's lead technology class is 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), 30% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21Y
Ranked #4,016 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Musco Corporation against Lashify, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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