Where does Foveon, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Foveon, Inc. ranks #14,625 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 Foveon, Inc. hold?

Foveon, Inc. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Foveon, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Foveon, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 28.3 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Foveon, Inc. focus on?

Foveon, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 16 patents, ranking #911 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Foveon, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Foveon, Inc.'s patents?

Foveon, Inc.'s patents average 14.1 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 Foveon, 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 US Corporation

Foveon, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Foveon ranks #14,625 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 6 technology areas.

#14,625
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.3/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14625 · US Corporation #14,625 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,625/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fiskars Garden Oy Ab
CPC-NARROW H04N · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fiskars Garden Oy Ab (±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 Foveon’s 28.3 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 10.5 pts (37%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 8.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Foveon · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Foveon's Innovation Score is 28.3/100 (27th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Foveon?

Each dot is one of Foveon’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). Foveon’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Foveon's grants concentrate

Foveon, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Foveon sits between Fiskars Garden Oy Ab and G.B.D. Corp..

Foveon's three-year grant acceleration

Foveon, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Fiskars Garden Oy…

20
Flash Networks

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Fornetix

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20
Fractyl Health

20
Fujian Landi Comm…

20
Fujikura Kasei

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G B D

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Foveon ◀

20

What this shows Foveon holds 20 patents at rank #14,625, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Foveon

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,625 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Foveon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Foveon, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	15.0%
2016	2	10.0%
2017	1	5.0%
2018	3	15.0%
2019	5	25.0%
2020	3	15.0%
2021	2	10.0%
2022	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Foveon, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

H03F - Amplifiers 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

Top 6 of 6 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

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

Foveon, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #14,625 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Foveon, Inc. against Fiskars Garden Oy Ab, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.3/100 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

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