Where does Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. ranks #2,271 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 Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. hold?

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. holds 173 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.2 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -65% 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 Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s patents?

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s patents average 15.8 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 Universal Lighting Technologies 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

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. focus on?

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s top technology area is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General) with 105 patents, ranking #35 of 2,247 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 173 granted patents across 35 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: 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, Universal ranks #2,271 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 173 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,271
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.2/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2271 · US Corporation #2,271 · 173 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 173 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,271/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH General Interface…
CPC-FOCUS H05B · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: General Interface Solution Limited (±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 Universal’s 49.2 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 17.8 pts (36%) Velocity 1.0 pts (2%) Breadth 20.9 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basf Plant Science · near

49
Cummins-Allison · near

49
Krohne Messtechnik · near

49
Oracle America · near

49
Universal Lighting · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Universal's Innovation Score is 49.2/100 (top 15% 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 Universal?

Each dot is one of Universal’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). Universal’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Universal's grants concentrate

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 60.7% 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 2017 (40 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Universal sits between General Interface Solution Limited and Cataler Corporation.

Universal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. moved from 54 to 8 grants (0.15x 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 #3,140. See the growth leaderboard.

General Interface…

173
Luxtera

173
Ossia

173
The Government of…

173
Yonwoo

173
Universal Lighting ◀

173
AGS

172
Aeva

172
Cataler

172

What this shows Universal holds 173 patents at rank #2,271, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Universal

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,271 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Universal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Universal ranks #35 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Oracle America, Inc. 49 Basf Plant Science Company GmbH 49 Krohne Messtechnik GmbH 49 Cummins-Allison Corp. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Solvay SA 15.8 avg Fenwal, Inc. 15.8 avg City of Hope 15.8 avg Celgard, LLC 15.8 avg

Universal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 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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Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	10.4%
2016	34	19.7%
2017	40	23.1%
2018	19	11.0%
2019	17	9.8%
2020	20	11.6%
2021	17	9.8%
2022	3	1.7%
2023	5	2.9%

Which technologies does Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. patent most?

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 105

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 67

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 46

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 36

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

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 16

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

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

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 8

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 6

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 4

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 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

H01C - Resistors 2

Top 15 of 35 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

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Universal Lighting Technologies Inc.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 60.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
Ranked #2,271 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. against General Interface Solution Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.2/100 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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