Where does Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. ranks #10,886 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 Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. hold?

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s patents?

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s patents average 14.3 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 Canon Nanotechnologies, 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

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. focus on?

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s top technology area is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;) with 26 patents, ranking #75 of 595 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canon ranks #10,886 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 15 technology areas.

#10,886
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10886 · US Corporation #10,886 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,886/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Blue Buffalo…
CPC-FOCUS G03F · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Blue Buffalo Enterpises, 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 Canon’s 35.5 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 11.6 pts (33%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 13.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canon Nanotechnologies · this assignee

36
Jiaxing Jackson… · near

36
Pi-Design · near

36
Vectura Delivery… · near

36
Whirlpool Emea S p A · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Canon's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Canon?

Each dot is one of Canon’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). Canon’s own 14.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Canon's grants concentrate

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 92.9% of grants classified under G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Canon sits between Blue Buffalo Enterpises, Inc. and Clph, LLC.

Canon's three-year grant acceleration

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Blue Buffalo Ente…

28
Bracco Diagnostics

28
Brose Schliessyst…

28
Canon Electron Tu…

28
Carbios

28
Cedes

28
Celanese Sales Ge…

28
Clph

28
Canon Nanotechnol… ◀

28

What this shows Canon holds 28 patents at rank #10,884, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Canon

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,884 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Canon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces), Canon ranks #75 of 595 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Vectura Delivery Devices Limited 36 Jiaxing Jackson Travel Products Co., Ltd. 36 Whirlpool Emea S.p.A. 36 Pi-Design AG 36

Canon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	39.3%
2016	5	17.9%
2017	6	21.4%
2018	1	3.6%
2019	2	7.1%
2020	1	3.6%
2021	1	3.6%
2022	1	3.6%

Which technologies does Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. patent most?

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 26

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 18

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

B41C - Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;), 92.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03F
Ranked #10,886 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc. against Blue Buffalo Enterpises, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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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