Where does Osram Sylvania Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Osram Sylvania Inc. ranks #1,180 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 Osram Sylvania Inc. hold?

Osram Sylvania Inc. holds 361 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is Osram Sylvania Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Osram Sylvania Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Osram Sylvania Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Osram Sylvania Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Osram Sylvania Inc.'s patents?

Osram Sylvania Inc.'s patents average 13.2 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 Osram Sylvania 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

Osram Sylvania Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Osram Sylvania Inc. focus on?

Osram Sylvania 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 125 patents, ranking #27 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 361 granted patents across 88 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Osram ranks #1,180 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 361 patents across 88 technology areas.

#1,180
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1180 · US Corporation #1,180 · 361 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 361 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,180/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asia Vital Components
CPC-WIDE H05B · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd. (±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 Osram’s 53.5 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 20.4 pts (38%) Velocity 0.2 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eligo Bioscience · near

54
Embecta · near

54
GD Midea Heating &… · near

54
NextNav · near

54
Osram Sylvania · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Osram's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 Osram?

Each dot is one of Osram’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). Osram’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Osram's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Osram Sylvania Inc. received 59 grants versus 302 in 2015–2019 (-80% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 70 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class H05B accounts for 34.6% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Plantronics, Inc. (#1,176) and Institute OF Microelectronics OF THE Chinese Academy OF Sciences (#1,184).

Osram's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Osram Sylvania Inc. moved from 116 to 4 grants (0.03x 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 #3,250. See the growth leaderboard.

Plantronics

362
Soochow University

362
Stryker European…

362
Asia Vital Compon…

361
Shenzhen Shokz

361
Universiteit Gent

361
Osram Sylvania ◀

361
Academia Sinica

360
Institute OF Micr…

360

What this shows Osram holds 361 patents at rank #1,180, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Osram

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,180 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Osram, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Osram ranks #27 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

NextNav, LLC 54 GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. 54 Eligo Bioscience 54 Embecta Corp. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Aktiebolaget SKF 13.2 avg Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 13.2 avg Polar Electro Oy 13.2 avg Norma Germany GMBH 13.2 avg

Osram's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Osram Sylvania Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	70	19.4%
2016	56	15.5%
2017	66	18.3%
2018	49	13.6%
2019	61	16.9%
2020	40	11.1%
2021	15	4.2%
2022	3	0.8%
2023	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Osram Sylvania Inc. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 125

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 69

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 64

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 60

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 57

H04B - Transmission 45

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 32

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 24

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 23

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 21

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

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 18

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 17

Top 15 of 88 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

Osram Sylvania Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Osram Sylvania Inc.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 34.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #1,180 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Osram Sylvania Inc. against Plantronics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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

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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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