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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gatan, Inc. ranks #13,999 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 Gatan, Inc. hold?

Gatan, Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Gatan, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gatan, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gatan, Inc. focus on?

Gatan, Inc.'s top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 19 patents, ranking #118 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

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

Gatan, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +63% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gatan, Inc.'s patents?

Gatan, Inc.'s patents average 15.1 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 Gatan, 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

Gatan, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 15 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gatan ranks #13,999 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 15 technology areas.

#13,999
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: +63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13999 · US Corporation #13,999 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,999/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Freudenberg Medical
CPC-FOCUS H01J · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Freudenberg Medical, LLC (±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 Gatan’s 35.9 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 10.7 pts (30%) Velocity 2.4 pts (7%) Breadth 13.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gatan · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gatan's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Gatan?

Each dot is one of Gatan’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). Gatan’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gatan's grants concentrate

Gatan, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 90.5% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Gatan sits between Freudenberg Medical, LLC and GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Epayments GMBH.

Gatan's three-year grant acceleration

Gatan, Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Freudenberg Medic…

21
Full-swing Golf

21
G I Windows

21
Galvion

21
Genomictree

21
Georg-august-univ…

21
Geze

21
Giesecke+Devrient…

21
Gatan ◀

21

What this shows Gatan holds 21 patents at rank #13,996, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gatan

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,996 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Gatan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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.

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Gatan, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.8%
2016	1	4.8%
2017	1	4.8%
2018	3	14.3%
2019	2	9.5%
2020	5	23.8%
2021	4	19.0%
2023	2	9.5%
2024	2	9.5%

Which technologies does Gatan, Inc. patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 19

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 1

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

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

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 1

Top 15 of 15 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

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

Gatan, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 90.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #13,999 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gatan, Inc. against Freudenberg Medical, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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

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