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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Newlight Technologies, Inc. ranks #13,575 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 Newlight Technologies, Inc. hold?

Newlight Technologies, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

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

Newlight Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Newlight Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Newlight Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Newlight Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 14.8 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 Newlight 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

Newlight Technologies, Inc.

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

Newlight Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture) with 20 patents, ranking #91 of 1,268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Newlight ranks #13,575 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 16 technology areas.

#13,575
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13575 · US Corporation #13,575 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,575/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Kaohsiung…
CPC-FOCUS C12P · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Kaohsiung University OF Science AND Technology (±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 Newlight’s 41.6 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 10.8 pts (26%) Velocity 7.8 pts (19%) Breadth 14.1 pts (34%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Newlight · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Newlight's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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 Newlight?

Each dot is one of Newlight’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). Newlight’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Newlight's grants concentrate

Newlight Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Newlight sits between N.P.S. Company, LLC and Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.

Newlight's three-year grant acceleration

Newlight Technologies, Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

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National Kaohsiun…

22
NEO Semiconductor

22
Neuroloop

22
Ninestar

22
Ningbo Sunny Auto…

22
NIO

22
Nippon Steel Engi…

22
Newlight ◀

22

What this shows Newlight holds 22 patents at rank #13,568, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Newlight

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,568 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

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

Newlight's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Newlight Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	13.6%
2016	1	4.5%
2017	2	9.1%
2018	1	4.5%
2019	3	13.6%
2020	1	4.5%
2021	2	9.1%
2022	1	4.5%
2023	1	4.5%
2024	5	22.7%
2025partial year	2	9.1%

Which technologies does Newlight Technologies, Inc. patent most?

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 20

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 12

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 10

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 8

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

C12Y - Enzymes 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

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 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

Newlight Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12P
Ranked #13,575 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Newlight Technologies, Inc. against N.P.S. Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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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