Where does Canon Precision Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canon Precision Inc. ranks #24,054 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 Canon Precision Inc. hold?

Canon Precision Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Canon Precision Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Canon Precision Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.0 out of 100 (top 67% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Canon Precision Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Precision Inc.'s patents?

Canon Precision Inc.'s patents average 10.0 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 Precision 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 Foreign Corporation

Canon Precision Inc.

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

Canon Precision Inc.'s top technology area is G01D (MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G01D (MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OT).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canon ranks #24,054 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 13 technology areas.

#24,054
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 67%
by Innovation Score (30.0/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24054 · Foreign Corporation #24,054 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,054/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH CAELESTE CVBA
CPC-FOCUS G01D · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caeleste CVBA (±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
Canon Precision · this assignee

30
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Canon's Innovation Score is 30.0/100 (top 67% 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 Canon's grants concentrate

Canon Precision Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under G01D (MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OT). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Canon sits between Caeleste CVBA and Carimali S.p.a..

Canon's three-year grant acceleration

Canon Precision Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Caeleste CVBA

11
Caire

11
Calico Cottage

11
CANE' S P A

11
Carbice

11
Cardioflow

11
Cardiologs SAS

11
Carimali S P A

11
Canon Precision ◀

11

What this shows Canon holds 11 patents at rank #24,047, 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 #24,047 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01D (Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific Variable)

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

Canon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 Top 67% higher than 33% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Canon Precision Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	2	18.2%
2019	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Canon Precision Inc. patent most?

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 9

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 1

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 1

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

F16M - FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS 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

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 1

H10F - INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,054

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.0 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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