Where does Freedom Photonics LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Freedom Photonics LLC ranks #15,293 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 Freedom Photonics LLC hold?

Freedom Photonics LLC holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Freedom Photonics LLC's Innovation Score?

Freedom Photonics LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.4 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%).

Is Freedom Photonics LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Freedom Photonics LLC's recent grant velocity is +43% 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 Freedom Photonics LLC's patents?

Freedom Photonics LLC's patents average 21.1 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 Freedom Photonics LLC 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

Freedom Photonics LLC

Q: What technology areas does Freedom Photonics LLC focus on?

Freedom Photonics LLC'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 11 patents, ranking #128 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 7 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Freedom ranks #15,293 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 7 technology areas.

#15,293
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15293 · US Corporation #15,293 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,293/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Foshan Shunde…
CPC-NARROW H01S · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Foshan Shunde Yajiasi Kitchen Cabinet Co., Ltd. (±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 Freedom’s 52.4 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 10.3 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 9.4 pts (18%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acxiom · near

52
ECP Entwicklungsgese… · near

52
Freedom Photonics · this assignee

52
Giesecke & Devrient · near

52
Inha University… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Freedom's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (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 Freedom?

Each dot is one of Freedom’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). Freedom’s own 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Freedom's grants concentrate

Freedom Photonics LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 57.9% 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 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Freedom sits between Foshan Shunde Yajiasi Kitchen Cabinet Co., Ltd. and Galaxy Surfactants Ltd..

Freedom's three-year grant acceleration

Freedom Photonics LLC shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Foshan Shunde Yaj…

19
Fox Head

19
Franke Kaffeemasc…

19
Free Form Fibers

19
Freeport-mcmoran

19
Fuhu Holdings

19
Fukuoka University

19
Galaxy Surfactants

19
Freedom Photonics ◀

19

What this shows Freedom holds 19 patents at rank #15,298, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Freedom

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,298 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Freedom, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…), Freedom ranks #128 of 855 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Acxiom LLC 52 Inha University Research AND Business Foundation 52 ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH 52 Giesecke & Devrient GMBH 52

Freedom's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Freedom Photonics LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	15.8%
2018	2	10.5%
2019	2	10.5%
2021	1	5.3%
2022	3	15.8%
2023	4	21.1%
2024	2	10.5%
2025partial year	2	10.5%

Which technologies does Freedom Photonics LLC 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 11

H04B - Transmission 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

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 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Freedom Photonics LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Freedom Photonics LLC'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), 57.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #15,293 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Freedom Photonics LLC against Foshan Shunde Yajiasi Kitchen Cabinet Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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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