Where does ChemImage Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ChemImage Corporation ranks #10,281 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 ChemImage Corporation hold?

ChemImage Corporation holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is ChemImage Corporation's Innovation Score?

ChemImage Corporation has an Innovation Score of 58.9 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ChemImage Corporation focus on?

ChemImage Corporation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 17 patents, ranking #897 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is ChemImage Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ChemImage Corporation's recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for ChemImage Corporation's patents?

ChemImage Corporation's patents average 22.2 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 ChemImage Corporation 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

ChemImage Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 15 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chemimage ranks #10,281 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 15 technology areas.

#10,281
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.9/100): 22.2
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10281 · US Corporation #10,281 · 30 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,281/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Candela
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Candela Corporation (±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 Chemimage’s 58.9 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 11.9 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (34%) Breadth 13.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 13.3 pts (23%)

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Chung ANG University… · near

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Hunan University · near

59
Tonal Systems · near

59
ChemImage · this assignee

59
L&T Technology… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chemimage's Innovation Score is 58.9/100 (top 4% 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 Chemimage?

Each dot is one of Chemimage’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). Chemimage’s own 22.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Chemimage's grants concentrate

ChemImage Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 56.7% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Chemimage sits between Candela Corporation and Cintas Corporate Services, Inc..

Chemimage's three-year grant acceleration

ChemImage Corporation shows 18 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.

Candela

30
Carl Zeiss Multis…

30
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30
Centre Hospitalie…

30
Chiaro Technology

30
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30
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30
Cintas Corporate…

30
Chemimage ◀

30

What this shows ChemImage holds 30 patents at rank #10,287, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ChemImage

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,287 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ChemImage, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), ChemImage ranks #897 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Hunan University 59 Tonal Systems, Inc. 59 Chung ANG University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation 59 L&T Technology Services Limited 59

Chemimage's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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ChemImage Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	10.0%
2016	1	3.3%
2017	1	3.3%
2019	1	3.3%
2020	1	3.3%
2021	2	6.7%
2022	7	23.3%
2023	7	23.3%
2024	4	13.3%
2025partial year	3	10.0%

Which technologies does ChemImage Corporation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 17

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 14

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

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 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 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

ChemImage Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ChemImage Corporation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 56.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #10,281 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ChemImage Corporation against Candela Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.9/100 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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