Where does Excelitas Canada, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Excelitas Canada, Inc. ranks #13,980 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 Excelitas Canada, Inc. hold?

Excelitas Canada, Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Excelitas Canada, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Excelitas Canada, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Excelitas Canada, Inc. focus on?

Excelitas Canada, Inc.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 7 patents, ranking #1,362 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

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

Excelitas Canada, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Excelitas Canada, Inc.'s patents?

Excelitas Canada, Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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 Excelitas Canada, 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 Foreign Corporation

Excelitas Canada, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 26 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Excelitas ranks #13,980 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 26 technology areas.

#13,980
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13980 · Foreign Corporation #13,980 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,980/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Erber
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Erber 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 Excelitas’s 52.3 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 10.7 pts (20%) Velocity 11.1 pts (21%) Breadth 18.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Excelitas Canada · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Excelitas's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Excelitas?

Each dot is one of Excelitas’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). Excelitas’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Excelitas's grants concentrate

Excelitas Canada, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Excelitas sits between Erber AG and Flashsilicon Incorporation.

Excelitas's three-year grant acceleration

Excelitas Canada, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Erber

21
Etagen

21
Evonik Oxeno & KG

21
Exabeam

21
Exegy Incorporated

21
Eyepoint Pharmace…

21
Eyenovia

21
Flashsilicon Inco…

21
Excelitas Canada ◀

21

What this shows Excelitas holds 21 patents at rank #13,980, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Excelitas

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,980 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Excelitas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Excelitas Canada, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	19.0%
2016	3	14.3%
2017	2	9.5%
2018	3	14.3%
2019	1	4.8%
2020	2	9.5%
2022	3	14.3%
2023	2	9.5%
2025partial year	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Excelitas Canada, Inc. patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

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 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

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

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 3

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

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

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 1

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

Top 15 of 26 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

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

Excelitas Canada, Inc.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #13,980 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Excelitas Canada, Inc. against Erber AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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.