Where does FEI Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FEI Company ranks #894 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 FEI Company hold?

FEI Company holds 502 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 70 technology areas.

What is FEI Company's Innovation Score?

FEI Company has an Innovation Score of 64.7 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does FEI Company focus on?

FEI Company's top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 423 patents, ranking #9 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 70 CPC subclasses total.

Is FEI Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FEI Company's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 FEI Company's patents?

FEI Company's patents average 18.7 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 FEI Company 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

FEI Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 502 granted patents across 70 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, FEI ranks #894 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 502 patents across 70 technology areas.

#894
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.7/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R894 · US Corporation #894 · 502 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 502 grants
TOP-DECILE #894/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nidec Sankyo
CPC-WIDE H01J · 70 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nidec Sankyo Corporation (±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 FEI’s 64.7 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 21.5 pts (33%) Velocity 6.9 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acer Incorporated · near

65
FEI · this assignee

65
Yanshan University · near

65
University Public… · near

65
Eagle Technology · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows FEI's Innovation Score is 64.7/100 (top 2% 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 FEI?

Each dot is one of FEI’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). FEI’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How FEI's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, FEI Company received 218 grants versus 250 in 2015–2019 (-13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 64 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 39. Lead class H01J accounts for 84.3% of the portfolio across 70 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Entegris, Inc. (#890) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (#898).

FEI's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, FEI Company moved from 126 to 131 grants (1.04x 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 #1,081. See the growth leaderboard.

Entegris

509
Nuvasive

504
KLA

503
Novo Nordisk A/S

503
Nidec Sankyo

502
FEI ◀

502
Airbus Helicopters

501
Atlassian PTY

500
China Petroleum &…

500

What this shows FEI holds 502 patents at rank #894, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FEI

By rank, the assignees closest to #894 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FEI, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), FEI ranks #9 of 1,076 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Yanshan University 65 University Public Corporation Osaka 65 Acer Incorporated 65 Eagle Technology, LLC 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Micro Focus LLC 18.7 avg Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. 18.7 avg Novozymes A/S 18.7 avg AI Incorporated 18.7 avg

FEI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 2% higher than 98% 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.

View data table

FEI Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	64	12.7%
2016	49	9.8%
2017	55	11.0%
2018	43	8.6%
2019	39	7.8%
2020	41	8.2%
2021	46	9.2%
2022	43	8.6%
2023	40	8.0%
2024	48	9.6%
2025partial year	34	6.8%

Which technologies does FEI Company patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 423

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 214

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 65

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 37

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 27

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 21

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 19

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 14

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 12

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 9

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 8

Top 15 of 70 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

FEI Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FEI Company's lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 84.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #894 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FEI Company against Entegris, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.7/100 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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