Where does Truelite Trace, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Truelite Trace, Inc. ranks #20,559 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Truelite Trace, Inc. hold?

Truelite Trace, Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Truelite Trace, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Truelite Trace, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.6 out of 100 (top 58% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Truelite Trace, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Truelite Trace, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Truelite Trace, Inc.'s patents?

Truelite Trace, Inc.'s patents average 13.6 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 Truelite Trace, Inc. 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

Truelite Trace, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Truelite Trace, Inc. focus on?

Truelite Trace, Inc.'s top technology area is G07C (TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G07C (TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FO).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Truelite ranks #20,559 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 11 technology areas.

#20,559
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 58%
by Innovation Score (32.6/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20559 · US Corporation #20,559 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,559/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Tribogenics
CPC-FOCUS G07C · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tribogenics, Inc. (±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
Ariad Pharmaceuticals · near

33
Gericke · near

33
Taisei · near

33
Thermo Fisher Scient… · near

33
Truelite Trace · this assignee

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Truelite's Innovation Score is 32.6/100 (top 58% 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 Truelite's grants concentrate

Truelite Trace, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under G07C (TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FO). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Truelite sits between Tribogenics, Inc. and Universidad DEL País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

Tribogenics

14
Trice Medical

14
Tritana Intellect…

14
Troax AB

14
Tyco Belgium EC B…

14
U S Environmental…

14
UNEO

14
Universidad DEL P…

14
Truelite Trace ◀

14

What this shows Truelite holds 14 patents at rank #20,558, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Truelite

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,558 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07C (TIME OR Attendance Registers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Thermo Fisher Scientific (ecublens) SARL 33 Gericke Ag 33 Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 33 Taisei Corporation 33

Truelite's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 58% higher than 42% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Truelite Trace, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.1%
2016	3	21.4%
2017	2	14.3%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	3	21.4%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Truelite Trace, Inc. patent most?

G07C - TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 12

G06Q - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 8

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 3

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

B60W - CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT 2

G08G - TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS 2

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 2

G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

B60R - VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

G09B - EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,559

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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