Where does Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS ranks #19,871 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 Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS hold?

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's Innovation Score?

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS has an Innovation Score of 28.7 out of 100 (28th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's patents?

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's patents average 16.7 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 Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS 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

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS

Q: What technology areas does Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS focus on?

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's top technology area is G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry) with 8 patents, ranking #168 of 1,478 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Horiba ranks #19,871 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 7 technology areas.

#19,871
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 28th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.7/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19871 · Foreign Corporation #19,871 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,871/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hitachi Automotive…
CPC-NARROW G01J · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, 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 Horiba’s 28.7 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 (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Horiba's Innovation Score is 28.7/100 (28th 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 Horiba?

Each dot is one of Horiba’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). Horiba’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Horiba's grants concentrate

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Horiba sits between Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. and Hznp Limited.

Hitachi Automotiv…

14
Hitps

14
HK Army

14
Hoffmann Neopac

14
Howmet

14
Huaneng Clean Ene…

14
Hydra-electric

14
Hznp

14
Horiba Jobin Yvon… ◀

14

What this shows Horiba holds 14 patents at rank #19,852, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Horiba

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,852 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01J (Measurement OF Intensity)

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

Horiba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 28th percentile higher than 28% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	28.6%
2016	1	7.1%
2017	4	28.6%
2018	3	21.4%
2019	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS patent most?

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G01Q - Scanning-probe Techniques OR APPARATUS; Applications OF Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g. Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] 1

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

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS's lead technology class is G01J (Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01J
Ranked #19,871 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Horiba Jobin Yvon SAS against Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.7/100 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

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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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