Where does UL LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UL LLC ranks #16,469 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 UL LLC hold?

UL LLC holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is UL LLC's Innovation Score?

UL LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.8 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is UL LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UL LLC's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 UL LLC's patents?

UL LLC's patents average 17.4 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 UL 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

UL LLC

Q: What technology areas does UL LLC focus on?

UL LLC's top technology area is 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) with 9 patents, ranking #1,413 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, UL ranks #16,469 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 21 technology areas.

#16,469
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.8/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16469 · US Corporation #16,469 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,469/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tubis Technology
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tubis Technology 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.

How UL’s 56.8 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 10.2 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 16.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
UL · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows UL's Innovation Score is 56.8/100 (top 6% 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 UL?

Each dot is one of UL’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). UL’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where UL's grants concentrate

UL LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, UL sits between Tubis Technology Inc. and Universite DE Lille 2 Droit ET Sante.

UL's three-year grant acceleration

UL LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Tubis Technology

18
Twelve Benefit

18
Uchiya Thermostat

18
UI

18
Under THE Roof De…

18
Universidad DE LO…

18
Universidade DO M…

18
Universite DE Lil…

18
UL ◀

18

What this shows UL holds 18 patents at rank #16,465, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UL

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,465 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

UL's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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UL LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	11.1%
2017	2	11.1%
2018	1	5.6%
2019	1	5.6%
2022	1	5.6%
2023	1	5.6%
2024	2	11.1%
2025partial year	8	44.4%

Which technologies does UL LLC patent most?

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 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

A62C - Fire-fighting 1

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B27G - Accessory Machines OR Apparatus FOR Working Wood OR Similar MATERIALS; Tools FOR Working Wood OR Similar Materials ; Safety Devices FOR Wood Working Machines OR Tools 1

Top 15 of 21 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

UL LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UL LLC's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #16,469 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UL LLC against Tubis Technology Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.8/100 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.