Where does Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. ranks #3,985 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 Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. hold?

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. holds 91 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 64.0 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 Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.'s patents average 16.0 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 Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. 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

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. focus on?

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 79 patents, ranking #29 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 91 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suzhou ranks #3,985 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 91 patents across 28 technology areas.

#3,985
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.0/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3985 · Foreign Corporation #3,985 · 91 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 91 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,985/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National University…
CPC-FOCUS F21V · 28 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National University Corporation Kagawa University (±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 Suzhou’s 64.0 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 15.6 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 18.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
InvenSense · near

64
Seoul National… · near

64
Suzhou Opple Lighting · this assignee

64
SZ DJI Technology · near

64
Toshiba Global… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Suzhou's Innovation Score is 64.0/100 (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 Suzhou?

Each dot is one of Suzhou’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). Suzhou’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Suzhou's grants concentrate

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 86.8% of grants classified under F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (30 grants) versus a trough of 14 in 2021. By volume, Suzhou sits between North China Electrical Power University and Silgan White Cap LLC.

Suzhou's three-year grant acceleration

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. shows 65 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

North China Elect…

91
National Universi…

91
Patent Investment…

91
SOCIÉTÉ BIC

91
Synventive Moldin…

91
Sage Therapeutics

91
Saint Louis Unive…

91
Silgan White Cap

91
Suzhou Opple Ligh… ◀

91

What this shows Suzhou holds 91 patents at rank #3,982, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suzhou

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,982 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Suzhou, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…), Suzhou ranks #29 of 1,842 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. 64 Seoul National University R&DB Foundation 64 SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd. 64 InvenSense, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Leedarson Lighting Co., Ltd. 16.0 avg OVH 16.0 avg Berlin Heart GmbH 16.0 avg Novaled GmbH 16.0 avg

Suzhou's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 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 · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	14	15.4%
2022	15	16.5%
2023	30	33.0%
2024	20	22.0%
2025partial year	12	13.2%

Which technologies does Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. patent most?

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 79

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 55

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 51

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 19

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 11

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 11

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 10

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 9

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 8

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 5

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 4

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 15 of 28 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

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 86.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #3,985 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suzhou Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. against North China Electrical Power University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.0/100 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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