Where does FotoNation Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FotoNation Limited ranks #1,473 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 FotoNation Limited hold?

FotoNation Limited holds 282 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is FotoNation Limited's Innovation Score?

FotoNation Limited has an Innovation Score of 52.6 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 FotoNation Limited focus on?

FotoNation Limited's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 177 patents, ranking #128 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is FotoNation Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FotoNation Limited's recent grant velocity is +10% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for FotoNation Limited's patents?

FotoNation Limited's patents average 19.9 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 FotoNation Limited 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

FotoNation Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 282 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fotonation ranks #1,473 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 282 patents across 25 technology areas.

#1,473
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: +10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1473 · Foreign Corporation #1,473 · 282 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 282 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,473/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atieva
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atieva, 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.

How Fotonation’s 52.6 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 19.5 pts (37%) Velocity 3.5 pts (7%) Breadth 17.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Duke Energy · near

53
Becton Dickinson… · near

53
Emerson Process… · near

53
FotoNation · this assignee

53
Biedermann & KG · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fotonation's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (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 Fotonation?

Each dot is one of Fotonation’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). Fotonation’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fotonation's grants concentrate

FotoNation Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 62.8% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (53 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2016. By volume, Fotonation sits between Firmenich SA and TC1 LLC.

Fotonation's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, FotoNation Limited moved from 131 to 68 grants (0.52x 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 #2,640. See the growth leaderboard.

Firmenich

283
Nanjing Chervon I…

283
Atieva

282
Chengdu Qinchuan…

282
GE Infrastructure…

282
Fotonation ◀

282
Shandong Universi…

281
Sram

281
TC1

281

What this shows FotoNation holds 282 patents at rank #1,473, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FotoNation

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,473 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FotoNation, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), FotoNation ranks #128 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies, Inc. 53 Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbH 53 Duke Energy Corporation 53 Biedermann Technologies GMBH & Co. KG 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

Steelseries ApS 19.9 avg John Bean Technologies Corporation 19.9 avg Construction Research & Technology GMBH 19.9 avg Neste OYJ 19.9 avg

Fotonation's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 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 · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

FotoNation Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	10.6%
2016	11	3.9%
2017	16	5.7%
2018	26	9.2%
2019	51	18.1%
2020	53	18.8%
2021	27	9.6%
2022	31	11.0%
2023	23	8.2%
2024	14	5.0%

Which technologies does FotoNation Limited patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 177

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 170

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 135

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 68

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 35

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 28

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 6

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

Top 15 of 25 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

FotoNation Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FotoNation Limited's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 62.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #1,473 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FotoNation Limited against Firmenich SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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

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.