Where does Finisar Sweden AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Finisar Sweden AB ranks #28,760 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 Finisar Sweden AB hold?

Finisar Sweden AB holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Finisar Sweden AB's Innovation Score?

Finisar Sweden AB has an Innovation Score of 28.9 out of 100 (29th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Finisar Sweden AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Finisar Sweden AB'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 Finisar Sweden AB's patents?

Finisar Sweden AB's patents average 21.7 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 Finisar Sweden AB 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

Finisar Sweden AB

Q: What technology areas does Finisar Sweden AB focus on?

Finisar Sweden AB's top technology area is 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) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Finisar ranks #28,760 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 5 technology areas.

#28,760
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 29th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.9/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28760 · Foreign Corporation #28,760 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,760/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fiberbuilt Manufactu…
CPC-NARROW H01S · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fiberbuilt Manufacturing 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Finisar Sweden AB · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Finisar's Innovation Score is 28.9/100 (29th percentile 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.

Where Finisar's grants concentrate

Finisar Sweden AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Finisar sits between Fiberbuilt Manufacturing Inc. and Fliteboard PTY Ltd..

Fiberbuilt Manufa…

9
Fibracast

9
Fico Transpar

9
Field Upgrading

9
FIO

9
Fisk University

9
Flex Films (USA)

9
Fliteboard PTY

9
Finisar Sweden AB ◀

9

What this shows Finisar holds 9 patents at rank #28,736, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Finisar

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,736 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…)

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

Finisar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 29th percentile higher than 29% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

View data table

Finisar Sweden AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	44.4%
2018	1	11.1%
2020	2	22.2%
2021	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Finisar Sweden AB patent most?

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 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

H04B - Transmission 3

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#28,760

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.9 out of 100

View all rankings →

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Finisar Sweden AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Finisar Sweden AB's lead technology class is 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), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #28,760 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Finisar Sweden AB against Fiberbuilt Manufacturing Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.9/100 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.