Where does Coherent, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Coherent, Inc. ranks #4,415 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 Coherent, Inc. hold?

Coherent, Inc. holds 80 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Coherent, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Coherent, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Coherent, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Coherent, Inc.'s patents?

Coherent, Inc.'s patents average 16.6 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 Coherent, 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

Coherent, Inc.

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

Coherent, Inc.'s top technology area is H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical) with 49 patents, ranking #26 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 80 granted patents across 21 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: H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Coherent ranks #4,415 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 80 patents across 21 technology areas.

#4,415
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4415 · US Corporation #4,415 · 80 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 80 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,415/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bayer MaterialScience
CPC-FOCUS H01S · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bayer MaterialScience AG (±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 Coherent’s 44.4 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 15.2 pts (34%) Velocity 3.0 pts (7%) Breadth 16.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Coherent · this assignee

44
Nippon Paint… · near

44
Nuvectra · near

44
PEPPERL+FUCHS · near

44
SII Semiconductor · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Coherent's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 Coherent?

Each dot is one of Coherent’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). Coherent’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Coherent's grants concentrate

Coherent, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 61.3% of grants classified under H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (22 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Coherent sits between Blue Cube IP LLC and EIS GmbH.

Coherent's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Coherent, Inc. moved from 20 to 9 grants (0.45x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Blue Cube IP

80
Bayer Materialsci…

80
Callahan Cellular…

80
Capital One Finan…

80
Coravin

80
Dupont Safety & C…

80
Draka Comteq B V

80
EIS

80
Coherent ◀

80

What this shows Coherent holds 80 patents at rank #4,415, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Coherent

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,415 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Coherent, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…), Coherent ranks #26 of 855 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Nuvectra Corporation 44 SII Semiconductor Corporation 44 Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. 44 PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

Optis Cellular Technology, LLC 16.6 avg Mallinckrodt Hospital Products IP Unlimited Company 16.6 avg Flexterra, Inc. 16.6 avg Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (Cayman) Ltd. 16.6 avg

Coherent's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Coherent, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	27.5%
2016	13	16.3%
2017	6	7.5%
2018	7	8.8%
2019	7	8.8%
2020	7	8.8%
2021	6	7.5%
2022	6	7.5%
2023	2	2.5%
2024	1	1.3%
2025partial year	3	3.8%

Which technologies does Coherent, Inc. patent most?

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 49

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 25

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 20

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 11

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 6

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

Top 15 of 21 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

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

Coherent, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges), 61.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #4,415 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Coherent, Inc. against Blue Cube IP LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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.

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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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