Where does Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. ranks #9,482 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 Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. hold?

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. focus on?

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 22 patents, ranking #608 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

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

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -78% 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 Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc.'s patents?

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc.'s patents average 21.9 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 Dicon Fiberoptics, 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

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dicon ranks #9,482 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 21 technology areas.

#9,482
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 21.9
avg claims per patent: -78%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9482 · US Corporation #9,482 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,482/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH D'Addario &
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -78% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: D'Addario & Company, Inc. (±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 Dicon’s 43.0 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 12.2 pts (28%) Velocity 1.5 pts (3%) Breadth 16.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Adisseo France S · near

43
Dicon Fiberoptics · this assignee

43
Ferric · near

43
Silicon Integrated… · near

43
Ward-Kraft · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dicon's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 Dicon?

Each dot is one of Dicon’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). Dicon’s own 21.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dicon's grants concentrate

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Dicon sits between D'Addario & Company, Inc. and E-lead Electronic Co., Ltd..

Dicon's three-year grant acceleration

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

D'addario &

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Daiwa Kasei Indus…

33
David Austin Roses

33
DE Nora Permelec

33
Douyin Vision

33
DPG USA

33
Drum Workshop

33
E-lead

33
Dicon Fiberoptics ◀

33

What this shows Dicon holds 33 patents at rank #9,482, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dicon

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,482 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dicon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Dicon ranks #608 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. 43 Ward-Kraft, Inc. 43 Ferric Inc. 43 Adisseo France S.A.S. 43

Dicon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	21.2%
2016	5	15.2%
2017	7	21.2%
2018	3	9.1%
2019	5	15.2%
2020	2	6.1%
2021	2	6.1%
2022	2	6.1%

Which technologies does Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 22

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 6

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 4

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 3

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H03F - Amplifiers 2

H04Q - Selecting 2

H04B - Transmission 2

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 2

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 2

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 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

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

Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #9,482 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. against D'Addario & Company, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.