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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Signify Holding B.V. ranks #237 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 Signify Holding B.V. hold?

Signify Holding B.V. holds 1,748 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 155 technology areas.

What is Signify Holding B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Signify Holding B.V. has an Innovation Score of 63.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Signify Holding B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Signify Holding B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +390% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Signify Holding B.V.'s patents?

Signify Holding B.V.'s patents average 13.1 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 Signify 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

Signify Holding B.V.

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

Signify 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 776 patents, ranking #1 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 155 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,748 granted patents across 155 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: 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, Signify ranks #237 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,748 patents across 155 technology areas.

#237
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.5/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: +390%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R237 · Foreign Corporation #237 · 1,748 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #237/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Continental Automotive
CPC-WIDE H05B · 155 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +390% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Continental Automotive GMBH (±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 Signify’s 63.5 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 25.8 pts (41%) Velocity 4.8 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sysmex · near

63
Iowa State Universit… · near

63
Seoul Semiconductor · near

63
Signify Holding B V · this assignee

63
InterDigital… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Signify's Innovation Score is 63.5/100 (top 2% 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 Signify?

Each dot is one of Signify’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). Signify’s own 13.1 claims/patent is at or below the 13.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Signify's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Signify Holding B.V. received 1,309 grants versus 267 in 2015–2019 (+390% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 347 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 149. Lead class H05B accounts for 44.4% of the portfolio across 155 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited (#233) and Northwestern University (#241).

Signify's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Signify Holding B.V. moved from 916 to 660 grants (0.72x 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 #2,082. See the growth leaderboard.

Sumitomo Chemical

1,758
Carrier

1,756
ZF Friedrichshafen

1,756
Continental Autom…

1,748
Signify Holding B… ◀

1,748
Baker Hughes Hold…

1,746
AT&T Mobility II

1,742
Airbus Operations…

1,734
Northwestern Univ…

1,734

What this shows Signify holds 1,748 patents at rank #237, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Signify

By rank, the assignees closest to #237 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Signify, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Signify ranks #1 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. 63 Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 63 InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS 63 Sysmex Corporation 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Ethertronics, Inc 13.1 avg Hunter Engineering Company 13.1 avg AS IP Holdco, LLC 13.1 avg Veoneer Sweden AB 13.1 avg

Signify's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Signify Holding B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	267	15.3%
2020	347	19.9%
2021	302	17.3%
2022	213	12.2%
2023	149	8.5%
2024	298	17.0%
2025partial year	172	9.8%

Which technologies does Signify Holding B.V. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 776

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 604

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 557

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 406

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 304

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 276

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 184

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 178

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 155

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 122

H04B - Transmission 112

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 106

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 68

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 64

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 59

Top 15 of 155 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

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

Signify 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), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #237 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Signify Holding B.V. against Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.5/100 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

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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