Where does Gooch AND Housego PLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gooch AND Housego PLC ranks #19,824 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 Gooch AND Housego PLC hold?

Gooch AND Housego PLC holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Gooch AND Housego PLC's Innovation Score?

Gooch AND Housego PLC has an Innovation Score of 29.9 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gooch AND Housego PLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gooch AND Housego PLC's recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Gooch AND Housego PLC's patents?

Gooch AND Housego PLC's patents average 15.6 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 Gooch AND Housego PLC 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

Gooch AND Housego PLC

Q: What technology areas does Gooch AND Housego PLC focus on?

Gooch AND Housego PLC'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 8 patents, ranking #173 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 10 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gooch ranks #19,824 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 10 technology areas.

#19,824
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.9/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19824 · Foreign Corporation #19,824 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,824/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Genicook Product
CPC-FOCUS H01S · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Genicook Product, 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 Gooch’s 29.9 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 9.4 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Gooch AND Housego · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Gooch's Innovation Score is 29.9/100 (32nd 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 Gooch?

Each dot is one of Gooch’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). Gooch’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gooch's grants concentrate

Gooch AND Housego PLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 57.1% 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 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Gooch sits between Genicook Product, LLC and GP Enterprises Co. Ltd.

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What this shows Gooch holds 14 patents at rank #19,807, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gooch

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,807 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Gooch's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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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.

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Gooch AND Housego PLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	21.4%
2016	6	42.9%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	1	7.1%
2019	2	14.3%
2021	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Gooch AND Housego PLC 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 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

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 6

H04B - Transmission 2

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Gooch AND Housego PLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gooch AND Housego PLC'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), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #19,824 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gooch AND Housego PLC against Genicook Product, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.9/100 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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