Where does Southern States, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Southern States, LLC ranks #9,130 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 Southern States, LLC hold?

Southern States, LLC holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Southern States, LLC's Innovation Score?

Southern States, LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.8 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Southern States, LLC focus on?

Southern States, LLC's top technology area is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices) with 14 patents, ranking #92 of 1,006 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is Southern States, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Southern States, LLC's recent grant velocity is +167% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Southern States, LLC's patents?

Southern States, LLC's patents average 17.2 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 Southern States, LLC 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

Southern States, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 23 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: H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Southern ranks #9,130 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 23 technology areas.

#9,130
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.8/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9130 · US Corporation #9,130 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,130/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safe Rack
CPC-FOCUS H01H · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safe Rack LLC (±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 Southern’s 46.8 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 12.4 pts (26%) Velocity 7.2 pts (15%) Breadth 17.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Innovative Micro… · near

47
Koch-Glitsch · near

47
Metrol Technology · near

47
Realwear · near

47
Southern States · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Southern's Innovation Score is 46.8/100 (top 20% 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 Southern?

Each dot is one of Southern’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). Southern’s own 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Southern's grants concentrate

Southern States, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Southern sits between Seikoh Giken Co., Ltd. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp..

Southern's three-year grant acceleration

Southern States, LLC shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Seikoh Giken

35
Shannon Systems

35
Showa Glove

35
Sito Mobile R&D IP

35
Ssenstone

35
Subsea 7 Norway AS

35
Safe Rack

35
Semiconductor Man…

35
Southern States ◀

35

What this shows Southern holds 35 patents at rank #9,120, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Southern

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,120 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01H (Electric Switches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Southern, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01H (Electric Switches), Southern ranks #92 of 1,006 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Metrol Technology Limited 47 Koch-Glitsch, LP 47 Realwear, Inc. 47 Innovative Micro Technology 47

Southern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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Southern States, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.7%
2016	2	5.7%
2017	2	5.7%
2019	3	8.6%
2020	6	17.1%
2021	4	11.4%
2022	4	11.4%
2023	2	5.7%
2024	8	22.9%
2025partial year	2	5.7%

Which technologies does Southern States, LLC patent most?

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 14

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 13

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 12

H04Q - Selecting 4

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 4

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

H01C - Resistors 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 1

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 15 of 23 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

Southern States, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Southern States, LLC's lead technology class is H01H (Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01H
Ranked #9,130 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Southern States, LLC against Seikoh Giken Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.