Where does IPG Photonics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), IPG Photonics Corporation ranks #2,659 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 IPG Photonics Corporation hold?

IPG Photonics Corporation holds 146 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is IPG Photonics Corporation's Innovation Score?

IPG Photonics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 57.9 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is IPG Photonics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

IPG Photonics Corporation's recent grant velocity is -12% 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 IPG Photonics Corporation's patents?

IPG Photonics Corporation's patents average 16.8 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 IPG Photonics Corporation 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

IPG Photonics Corporation

Q: What technology areas does IPG Photonics Corporation focus on?

IPG Photonics Corporation'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 68 patents, ranking #20 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 146 granted patents across 51 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: 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, IPG ranks #2,659 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 146 patents across 51 technology areas.

#2,659
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.9/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2659 · US Corporation #2,659 · 146 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 146 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,659/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brita
CPC-WIDE H01S · 51 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brita LP (±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 IPG’s 57.9 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 17.2 pts (30%) Velocity 5.5 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
IPG Photonics · this assignee

58
Materion · near

58
Sensata · near

58
Technische Universit… · near

58
Vertex Pharmaceutica… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows IPG's Innovation Score is 57.9/100 (top 5% 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 IPG?

Each dot is one of IPG’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). IPG’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How IPG's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, IPG Photonics Corporation received 64 grants versus 73 in 2015–2019 (-12% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 20 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 10. Lead class H01S accounts for 46.6% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Brita LP (#2,655) and Reliance Industries Limited (#2,663).

IPG's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, IPG Photonics Corporation moved from 46 to 38 grants (0.83x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,739. See the growth leaderboard.

Brita

146
Dorco

146
FMC

146
Herman Miller

146
Joseph Voegele

146
Kardium

146
Kohler Mira

146
Reliance Industri…

146
IPG Photonics ◀

146

What this shows IPG holds 146 patents at rank #2,659, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near IPG

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,659 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for IPG, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…), IPG ranks #20 of 855 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Sensata Technologies, Inc. 58 Materion Corporation 58 Technische Universität Wien 58 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC 16.8 avg Bruker Nano, Inc. 16.8 avg Cambridge Display Technology Limited 16.8 avg Teradata US, Inc. 16.8 avg

IPG's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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.

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IPG Photonics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	10.3%
2016	13	8.9%
2017	15	10.3%
2018	10	6.8%
2019	20	13.7%
2020	13	8.9%
2021	13	8.9%
2022	14	9.6%
2023	12	8.2%
2024	12	8.2%
2025partial year	9	6.2%

Which technologies does IPG Photonics Corporation 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 68

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 67

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 41

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 23

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 10

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 7

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 7

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

Top 15 of 51 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

IPG Photonics Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

IPG Photonics Corporation'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), 46.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #2,659 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare IPG Photonics Corporation against Brita LP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.9/100 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.

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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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