Where does Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. ranks #2,324 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 Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. hold?

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. holds 168 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.5 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s patents?

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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 Electronics FOR Imaging, 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

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. focus on?

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 114 patents, ranking #25 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 168 granted patents across 44 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Electronics ranks #2,324 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 168 patents across 44 technology areas.

#2,324
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.5/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2324 · US Corporation #2,324 · 168 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 168 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,324/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Erbe Elektromedizin
CPC-WIDE B41J · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH (±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 Electronics’s 55.5 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 17.7 pts (32%) Velocity 4.2 pts (8%) Breadth 23.5 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FOR Imaging · this assignee

55
EV Group E Thallner · near

55
Fairchild Semiconduc… · near

55
Faurecia Systemes… · near

55
FuelCell Energy · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Electronics's Innovation Score is 55.5/100 (top 7% 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 Electronics?

Each dot is one of Electronics’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). Electronics’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Electronics's grants concentrate

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 67.9% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (24 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2020. By volume, Electronics sits between Rigaku Corporation and Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc..

Electronics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. moved from 53 to 33 grants (0.62x 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 #2,381. See the growth leaderboard.

Rigaku

169
Shanghai Avic Opt…

169
Sunbeam Products

169
THE Children's Ho…

169
Erbe Elektromediz…

168
Extreme Networks

168
General Electric…

168
Ingersoll-rand In…

168
FOR Imaging ◀

168

What this shows Electronics holds 168 patents at rank #2,324, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Electronics

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,324 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Electronics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41J (Typewriters), Electronics ranks #25 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

EV Group E. Thallner GMBH 55 Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation 55 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 55 Faurecia Systemes D'echappement 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. 16.9 avg Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg IGT Global Soulutions Corporation 16.9 avg AFL Telecommunications LLC 16.9 avg

Electronics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	10.1%
2016	20	11.9%
2017	14	8.3%
2018	14	8.3%
2019	19	11.3%
2020	10	6.0%
2021	24	14.3%
2022	10	6.0%
2023	11	6.5%
2024	12	7.1%
2025partial year	17	10.1%

Which technologies does Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 114

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 30

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 27

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 26

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 7

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 6

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 4

Top 15 of 44 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

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc.'s lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 67.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #2,324 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Electronics FOR Imaging, Inc. against Rigaku Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.5/100 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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