Where does Tridonic GmbH & Co KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tridonic GmbH & Co KG ranks #1,977 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 Tridonic GmbH & Co KG hold?

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG holds 203 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's Innovation Score?

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's patents?

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's patents average 12.4 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 Tridonic GmbH & Co KG 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

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG

Q: What technology areas does Tridonic GmbH & Co KG focus on?

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 145 patents. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 203 granted patents across 49 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: 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, Tridonic ranks #1,977 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 203 patents across 49 technology areas.

#1,977
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1977 · Foreign Corporation #1,977 · 203 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 203 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,977/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Albert Einstein…
CPC-WIDE H05B · 49 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dassault Systemes… · near

54
JX Nippon Mining &… · near

54
Tridonic & KG · this assignee

54
Adtran · near

54
ETO Magnetic · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tridonic's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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.

Where Tridonic's grants concentrate

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (31 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2022. By volume, Tridonic sits between Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company and Cubic Corporation.

Tridonic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tridonic GmbH & Co KG moved from 66 to 37 grants (0.56x 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 #2,546. See the growth leaderboard.

Watlow Electric M…

204
Albert Einstein C…

203
Carbon

203
Doskocil Manufact…

203
University of Not…

203
Virginia Commonwe…

203
Tridonic & KG ◀

203
BP North America

202
Cubic

202

What this shows Tridonic holds 203 patents at rank #1,977, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tridonic

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,977 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation 54 Dassault Systemes Americas Corp. 54 Adtran, Inc. 54 ETO Magnetic GMBH 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.4 here).

Vega Grieshaber KG 12.4 avg Yamaguchi University 12.4 avg Sagemcom Broadband SAS 12.4 avg Xiamen University 12.4 avg

Tridonic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Tridonic GmbH & Co KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	7.4%
2016	31	15.3%
2017	26	12.8%
2018	17	8.4%
2019	31	15.3%
2020	16	7.9%
2021	19	9.4%
2022	8	3.9%
2023	10	4.9%
2024	19	9.4%
2025partial year	11	5.4%

Which technologies does Tridonic GmbH & Co KG patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 145

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 75

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 45

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 22

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

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 11

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

H04B - Transmission 7

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

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 4

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,977

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.3 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

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tridonic GmbH & Co KG's lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #1,977 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tridonic GmbH & Co KG against Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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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