Where does Cognex Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cognex Corporation ranks #1,228 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 Cognex Corporation hold?

Cognex Corporation holds 346 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Cognex Corporation's Innovation Score?

Cognex Corporation has an Innovation Score of 60.8 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%).

What technology areas does Cognex Corporation focus on?

Cognex Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 137 patents, ranking #162 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

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

Cognex Corporation's recent grant velocity is +10% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Cognex Corporation's patents average 19.1 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 Cognex 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

Cognex Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 346 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cognex ranks #1,228 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 346 patents across 45 technology areas.

#1,228
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.8/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1228 · US Corporation #1,228 · 346 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 346 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,228/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aisan Kogyo
CPC-WIDE H04N · 45 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 Cognex’s 60.8 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 20.2 pts (33%) Velocity 5.4 pts (9%) Breadth 23.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evident · near

61
Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

61
Cognex · this assignee

61
MillerKnoll · near

61
Dish L L C · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cognex's Innovation Score is 60.8/100 (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 Cognex?

Each dot is one of Cognex’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). Cognex’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cognex's grants concentrate

Cognex Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 39.6% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (44 grants) versus a trough of 21 in 2024. By volume, Cognex sits between Janssen Biotech, Inc. and Agco Corporation.

Cognex's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cognex Corporation moved from 115 to 93 grants (0.81x 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 #1,813. See the growth leaderboard.

Janssen Biotech

347
King Slide Techno…

347
Tusimple

347
Aisan Kogyo

346
Iucf-hyu (Industr…

346
Cognex ◀

346
Endress+Hauser Fl…

345
Vanguard Internat…

345
Agco

344

What this shows Cognex holds 346 patents at rank #1,228, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cognex

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,228 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cognex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Cognex ranks #162 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

MillerKnoll, Inc. 61 Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg 61 Dish Technologies L.L.C. 61 Evident Corporation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

United Parcel Service OF America, Inc. 19.1 avg Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. 19.1 avg Valve Corporation 19.1 avg Ofinno Technologies, LLC 19.1 avg

Cognex'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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Cognex Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	6.6%
2016	31	9.0%
2017	36	10.4%
2018	36	10.4%
2019	33	9.5%
2020	44	12.7%
2021	38	11.0%
2022	32	9.2%
2023	40	11.6%
2024	21	6.1%
2025partial year	12	3.5%

Which technologies does Cognex Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 137

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 134

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 113

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 69

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 68

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 52

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 42

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 40

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 20

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 19

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

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 14

H04M - Telephonic Communication 11

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 8

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 7

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

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

Cognex Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 39.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #1,228 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cognex Corporation against Janssen Biotech, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.8/100 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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