Where does Appotronics Corporation Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Appotronics Corporation Limited ranks #2,061 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 Appotronics Corporation Limited hold?

Appotronics Corporation Limited holds 192 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Appotronics Corporation Limited's Innovation Score?

Appotronics Corporation Limited has an Innovation Score of 60.6 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Appotronics Corporation Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Appotronics Corporation Limited's recent grant velocity is +128% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Appotronics Corporation Limited's patents?

Appotronics Corporation Limited's patents average 16.5 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 Appotronics Corporation Limited 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

Appotronics Corporation Limited

Q: What technology areas does Appotronics Corporation Limited focus on?

Appotronics Corporation Limited's top technology area is 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) with 155 patents, ranking #15 of 1,064 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 192 granted patents across 45 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Appotronics ranks #2,061 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 192 patents across 45 technology areas.

#2,061
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.6/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +128%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2061 · Foreign Corporation #2,061 · 192 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 192 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,061/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FMC
CPC-WIDE G03B · 45 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +128% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FMC Technologies, 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 Appotronics’s 60.6 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 18.2 pts (30%) Velocity 8.8 pts (15%) Breadth 23.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Appotronics · this assignee

61
Chang'an University · near

61
Lenovo Enterprise… · near

61
Lincoln Global · near

61
Teknologian… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Appotronics's Innovation Score is 60.6/100 (top 3% 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 Appotronics?

Each dot is one of Appotronics’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). Appotronics’s own 16.5 claims/patent is at or below the 17.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Appotronics's grants concentrate

Appotronics Corporation Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 80.7% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (37 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Appotronics sits between Solventum Intellectual Properties Company and Opple Lighting Co., Ltd..

Appotronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Appotronics Corporation Limited moved from 66 to 87 grants (1.32x 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 #623. See the growth leaderboard.

Solventum Intelle…

193
THE UAB Research…

193
The Governors of…

193
Zeno Semiconductor

193
FMC

192
Interdigital Madi…

192
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192
Opple Lighting

192
Appotronics ◀

192

What this shows Appotronics holds 192 patents at rank #2,061, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Appotronics

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,061 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR P…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Appotronics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR P…), Appotronics ranks #15 of 1,064 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy 61 Lincoln Global, Inc. 61 Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (SINGAPORE) PTE. Ltd. 61 Chang'an University 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

The Penn State Research Foundation 16.5 avg Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. 16.5 avg Arlanxeo Deutschland GmbH 16.5 avg GE Hybrid Technologies, LLC 16.5 avg

Appotronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Appotronics Corporation Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	4.2%
2016	1	0.5%
2017	5	2.6%
2018	23	12.0%
2019	21	10.9%
2020	19	9.9%
2021	26	13.5%
2022	31	16.1%
2023	19	9.9%
2024	37	19.3%
2025partial year	2	1.0%

Which technologies does Appotronics Corporation Limited patent most?

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 155

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 103

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 74

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 47

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 14

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 14

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 12

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 11

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 10

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 8

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 7

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 7

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 6

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 6

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 5

Top 15 of 45 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

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Appotronics Corporation Limited's lead technology class is 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), 80.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03B
Ranked #2,061 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Appotronics Corporation Limited against Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.6/100 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.

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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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