Where does Lasertec Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lasertec Corporation ranks #10,087 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 Lasertec Corporation hold?

Lasertec Corporation holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Lasertec Corporation's Innovation Score?

Lasertec Corporation has an Innovation Score of 40.7 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lasertec Corporation focus on?

Lasertec Corporation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 17 patents, ranking #897 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lasertec Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lasertec Corporation's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Lasertec Corporation's patents?

Lasertec Corporation's patents average 12.3 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 Lasertec 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 Foreign Corporation

Lasertec Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 22 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lasertec ranks #10,087 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 22 technology areas.

#10,087
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.7/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10087 · Foreign Corporation #10,087 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,087/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH KÄRCHER North America
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: KÄRCHER North America, 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 Lasertec’s 40.7 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 12.0 pts (29%) Velocity 4.8 pts (12%) Breadth 16.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Artisan Vehicle… · near

41
Evolutive Labs · near

41
ITE Tech · near

41
Lasertec · this assignee

41
NetScout Systems Texas · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lasertec's Innovation Score is 40.7/100 (top 35% 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 Lasertec?

Each dot is one of Lasertec’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). Lasertec’s own 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 13.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Lasertec's grants concentrate

Lasertec Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 54.8% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Lasertec sits between Kindred Systems Inc. and Lindsay Transportation Solutions, LLC.

Lasertec's three-year grant acceleration

Lasertec Corporation shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Kindred Systems

31
Kuroda Precision…

31
KÄRcher North Ame…

31
Lanxess

31
Leatherman Tool G…

31
Larson Manufactur…

31
Legacy Ventures

31
Lindsay Transport…

31
Lasertec ◀

31

What this shows Lasertec holds 31 patents at rank #10,086, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lasertec

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,086 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lasertec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Lasertec ranks #897 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

ITE Tech. Inc. 41 Evolutive Labs Co., Ltd. 41 NetScout Systems Texas, LLC 41 Artisan Vehicle Systems, Inc. 41

Lasertec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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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Lasertec Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	6.5%
2016	1	3.2%
2017	8	25.8%
2018	4	12.9%
2019	1	3.2%
2020	6	19.4%
2022	3	9.7%
2023	1	3.2%
2024	1	3.2%
2025partial year	4	12.9%

Which technologies does Lasertec Corporation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

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; 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 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 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

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 4

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

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 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H05G - X-ray Technique 1

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

Lasertec Corporation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 54.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #10,087 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lasertec Corporation against Kindred Systems Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.7/100 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

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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