Where does Philips Lighting Holding B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Philips Lighting Holding B.V. ranks #528 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 Philips Lighting Holding B.V. hold?

Philips Lighting Holding B.V. holds 855 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 138 technology areas.

What is Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Philips Lighting Holding B.V. has an Innovation Score of 55.9 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 Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'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 Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'s patents?

Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'s patents average 12.6 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 Philips Lighting Holding B.V. 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

Philips Lighting Holding B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Philips Lighting Holding B.V. focus on?

Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 422 patents. Grants appear in 138 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 855 granted patents across 138 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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, Philips ranks #528 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 855 patents across 138 technology areas.

#528
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (55.9/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R528 · Foreign Corporation #528 · 855 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 855 grants
TOP-DECILE #528/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Case Western…
CPC-WIDE H05B · 138 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Case Western Reserve University (±1 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Imra America · near

56
Interface Technology… · near

56
Mattson Technology · near

56
Philips Lighting… · this assignee

56
Stolle Machinery · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Philips's Innovation Score is 55.9/100 (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.

How Philips's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Philips Lighting Holding B.V. received 3 grants versus 852 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 396 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class H05B accounts for 49.4% of the portfolio across 138 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lear Corporation (#524) and Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (#532).

Lear

858
Cable Television…

857
Case Western Rese…

856
W L Gore & Associ…

856
Philips Lighting… ◀

855
Microchip Technol…

851
Semiconductor Man…

848
Open Invention Ne…

845
Hilti Aktiengesel…

842

What this shows Philips holds 855 patents at rank #528, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Philips

By rank, the assignees closest to #528 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Philips, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Stolle Machinery Company, LLC 56 Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd. 56 Mattson Technology, Inc. 56 Imra America, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

ADP, Inc. 12.6 avg Nidek Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Caregen Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Inha-industry Partnership Institute 12.6 avg

Philips's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 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 · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Philips Lighting Holding B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	26	3.0%
2017	327	38.2%
2018	396	46.3%
2019	103	12.0%
2020	2	0.2%
2021	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Philips Lighting Holding B.V. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 422

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 257

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 225

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 221

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 161

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 102

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 85

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 69

H04B - Transmission 55

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 52

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 52

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 45

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 43

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 43

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 41

Top 15 of 138 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#528

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Philips Lighting Holding B.V.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 49.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #528 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Philips Lighting Holding B.V. against Lear Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.9/100 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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