Where does Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. ranks #4,161 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 Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. hold?

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. holds 86 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.0 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.'s patents?

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.'s patents average 19.9 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 Kyocera SLD Laser, 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

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. focus on?

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.'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 82 patents, ranking #15 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 86 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Kyocera ranks #4,161 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 86 patents across 22 technology areas.

#4,161
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.0/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4161 · US Corporation #4,161 · 86 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 86 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,161/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Firestone Building…
CPC-FOCUS H01S · 22 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Firestone Building Products Company, 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 Kyocera’s 64.0 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 15.4 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 16.6 pts (26%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Royal Bank of Canada · near

64
Cummins Filtration IP · near

64
Kyocera SLD Laser · this assignee

64
Fox Factory · near

64
Max-Planck-Gesellsch… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kyocera's Innovation Score is 64.0/100 (top 2% 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 Kyocera?

Each dot is one of Kyocera’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). Kyocera’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kyocera's grants concentrate

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 95.3% 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 2023 (27 grants) versus a trough of 17 in 2022. By volume, Kyocera sits between Firestone Building Products Company, LLC and Means Industries, Inc..

Kyocera's three-year grant acceleration

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. shows 61 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Firestone Buildin…

86
Gvbb Holdings R L

86
Genghiscomm Holdi…

86
Harnischfeger

86
Kellogg Brown & R…

86
Kent State Univer…

86
Mochida Pharmaceu…

86
Means Industries

86
Kyocera SLD Laser ◀

86

What this shows Kyocera holds 86 patents at rank #4,159, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kyocera

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,159 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kyocera, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…), Kyocera ranks #15 of 855 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. 64 Fox Factory, Inc. 64 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. 64 Royal Bank of Canada 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

Cognizant Technology Solutions India PVT. Ltd. 19.9 avg Video Gaming Technologies, Inc. 19.9 avg CrowdStrike, Inc. 19.9 avg Auris Health, Inc. 19.9 avg

Kyocera's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	18	20.9%
2022	17	19.8%
2023	27	31.4%
2024	17	19.8%
2025partial year	7	8.1%

Which technologies does Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. 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 82

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 30

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 28

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 23

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 21

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 16

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 15

H04B - Transmission 10

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 10

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 8

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 6

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 5

Top 15 of 22 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

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.'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), 95.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #4,161 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc. against Firestone Building Products Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.0/100 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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