Where does Canon U.S.A., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canon U.S.A., Inc. ranks #1,576 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 U.S.A., Inc. hold?

Canon U.S.A., Inc. holds 262 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Canon U.S.A., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 62.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Canon U.S.A., Inc. focus on?

Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 156 patents, ranking #122 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +181% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s patents?

Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Canon U.S.A., 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 U.S.A., Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 262 granted patents across 55 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canon ranks #1,576 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 262 patents across 55 technology areas.

#1,576
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.4/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +181%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1576 · US Corporation #1,576 · 262 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 262 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,576/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Autel Robotics
CPC-WIDE A61B · 55 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +181% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Autel Robotics Co., Ltd. (±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 62.4 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 19.2 pts (31%) Velocity 6.5 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Google Technology… · near

62
Otsuka Pharmaceutical · near

62
Spreadtrum Communica… · near

62
Canon U · this assignee

62
Cook Medical · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Canon's Innovation Score is 62.4/100 (top 2% 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 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Canon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Canon U.S.A., Inc. received 177 grants versus 63 in 2015–2019 (+181% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 48 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 4. Lead class A61B accounts for 59.5% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Basf Coatings GMBH (#1,572) and Microjet Technology Co., Ltd. (#1,580).

Canon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Canon U.S.A., Inc. moved from 103 to 100 grants (0.97x 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 #1,264. See the growth leaderboard.

Basf Coatings

263
Conmed

263
Mitsuba

263
Autel Robotics

262
Hisense Internati…

262
Toyota Chuo Kenky…

262
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262
Microjet Technolo…

262
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262

What this shows Canon holds 262 patents at rank #1,576, 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 #1,576 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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 A61B (Diagnosis), Canon ranks #122 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Cook Medical Technologies LLC 62 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 62 Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 62 Google Technology Holdings LLC 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Digimarc Corporation 19.4 avg Donaldson Company, Inc. 19.4 avg Synaptics Incorporated 19.4 avg Illuscio, Inc. 19.4 avg

Canon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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.

View data table

Canon U.S.A., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	1.5%
2016	11	4.2%
2017	8	3.1%
2018	14	5.3%
2019	26	9.9%
2020	48	18.3%
2021	29	11.1%
2022	30	11.5%
2023	26	9.9%
2024	44	16.8%
2025partial year	22	8.4%

Which technologies does Canon U.S.A., Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 156

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 54

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 46

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 32

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 27

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 20

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 17

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 16

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 16

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 14

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 12

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 12

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

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

Top 15 of 55 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 U.S.A., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 59.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,576 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Canon U.S.A., Inc. against Basf Coatings GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.4/100 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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