Where does Fanuc America Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fanuc America Corporation ranks #8,583 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 Fanuc America Corporation hold?

Fanuc America Corporation holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Fanuc America Corporation's Innovation Score?

Fanuc America Corporation has an Innovation Score of 50.6 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fanuc America Corporation focus on?

Fanuc America Corporation's top technology area is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices) with 28 patents, ranking #58 of 1,442 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fanuc America Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fanuc America Corporation's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fanuc America Corporation's patents?

Fanuc America Corporation's patents average 19.2 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 Fanuc America 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

Fanuc America Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fanuc ranks #8,583 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 26 technology areas.

#8,583
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8583 · US Corporation #8,583 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,583/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DigitalOptics Mems
CPC-FOCUS B25J · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DigitalOptics Corporation Mems (±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 Fanuc’s 50.6 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 12.6 pts (25%) Velocity 8.5 pts (17%) Breadth 18.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Niigata University · near

51
Fanuc America · this assignee

51
Line · near

51
Ichikoh Industries · near

51
Nagoya Institute OF… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fanuc's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (top 13% 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 Fanuc?

Each dot is one of Fanuc’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). Fanuc’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fanuc's grants concentrate

Fanuc America Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 75.7% of grants classified under B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Fanuc sits between DigitalOptics Corporation Mems and Fuji OIL Holdings Inc..

Fanuc's three-year grant acceleration

Fanuc America Corporation shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Digitaloptics Mems

37
Elesa S P A

37
Episurf Ip-manage…

37
Exemplar Design

37
Flir Unmanned Aer…

37
Flow Control

37
Fortemedia

37
Fuji OIL Holdings

37
Fanuc America ◀

37

What this shows Fanuc holds 37 patents at rank #8,583, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fanuc

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,583 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25J (Manipulators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fanuc, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25J (Manipulators), Fanuc ranks #58 of 1,442 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Line Corporation 51 Nagoya Institute OF Technology 51 Ichikoh Industries, Ltd. 51 Niigata University 51

Fanuc's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Fanuc America Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	16.2%
2017	2	5.4%
2018	3	8.1%
2019	1	2.7%
2020	6	16.2%
2021	4	10.8%
2022	7	18.9%
2023	2	5.4%
2024	5	13.5%
2025partial year	1	2.7%

Which technologies does Fanuc America Corporation patent most?

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 28

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 26

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

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 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

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 2

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 2

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Fanuc America Corporation's lead technology class is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices), 75.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25J
Ranked #8,583 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fanuc America Corporation against DigitalOptics Corporation Mems, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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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