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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intevac, Inc. ranks #7,287 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 Intevac, Inc. hold?

Intevac, Inc. holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Intevac, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Intevac, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Intevac, Inc. focus on?

Intevac, Inc.'s top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 22 patents, ranking #103 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

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

Intevac, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Intevac, Inc.'s patents?

Intevac, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Intevac, 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

Intevac, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Intevac ranks #7,287 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 20 technology areas.

#7,287
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7287 · US Corporation #7,287 · 45 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,287/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hood Technology
CPC-FOCUS H01J · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hood Technology Corporation (±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 Intevac’s 42.9 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 13.2 pts (31%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 15.8 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intevac · this assignee

43
SG Gaming · near

43
Suss Microtec… · near

43
TT · near

43
Versata Development… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intevac's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 29% 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 Intevac?

Each dot is one of Intevac’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). Intevac’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Intevac's grants concentrate

Intevac, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 48.9% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Intevac sits between Hood Technology Corporation and Intelligent Technologies International, Inc..

Intevac's three-year grant acceleration

Intevac, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Hood Technology

45
Hosokawa Yoko

45
Ii-vi Incorporated

45
Intelligent Fusio…

45
Illinois Institut…

45
In2bones USA

45
Indian Industries

45
Intelligent Inter…

45
Intevac ◀

45

What this shows Intevac holds 45 patents at rank #7,279, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intevac

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,279 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Intevac, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), Intevac ranks #103 of 1,076 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Suss Microtec Lithography GMBH 43 TT Technologies, Inc. 43 Versata Development Group, Inc. 43 SG Gaming, Inc. 43

Intevac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Intevac, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	15.6%
2016	5	11.1%
2017	7	15.6%
2018	7	15.6%
2019	4	8.9%
2020	6	13.3%
2021	2	4.4%
2022	3	6.7%
2023	1	2.2%
2024	2	4.4%
2025partial year	1	2.2%

Which technologies does Intevac, Inc. patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 22

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 21

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 20

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 14

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Intevac, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 48.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #7,287 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intevac, Inc. against Hood Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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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