Where does Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd ranks #4,961 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 Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd hold?

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's Innovation Score?

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd focus on?

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 59 patents, ranking #259 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's recent grant velocity is +783% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's patents?

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's patents average 14.3 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 Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd 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

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leica ranks #4,961 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 20 technology areas.

#4,961
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: +783%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4961 · Foreign Corporation #4,961 · 70 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,961/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Laboratoire…
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +783% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Laboratoire Francais du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (±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 Leica’s 48.0 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 14.7 pts (31%) Velocity 8.9 pts (19%) Breadth 15.8 pts (33%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
B Braun Medical · near

48
East Carolina… · near

48
Leica Instruments… · this assignee

48
Mitel Networks · near

48
The University of… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leica's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Leica?

Each dot is one of Leica’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). Leica’s own 14.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Leica's grants concentrate

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 84.3% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (12 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Leica sits between Largan Digital Co., Ltd. and MasterCraft Boat Company, LLC.

Leica's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd moved from 24 to 32 grants (1.33x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Largan Digital

70
Laboratoire Franc…

70
Lehigh University

70
Leica Biosystems…

70
Lowe's Companies

70
Lumenis

70
Morehouse School…

70
Mastercraft Boat

70
Leica Instruments… ◀

70

What this shows Leica holds 70 patents at rank #4,961, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leica

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,961 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Leica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Leica ranks #259 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

The University of Western Australia 48 East Carolina University 48 B.Braun Medical Inc. 48 Mitel Networks Corporation 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Stoneage, Inc. 14.3 avg Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. 14.3 avg Tencent Technology (SHENZHEN) Company Limited 14.3 avg Rohinni, Inc. 14.3 avg

Leica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	4.3%
2019	3	4.3%
2020	12	17.1%
2021	9	12.9%
2022	12	17.1%
2023	10	14.3%
2024	10	14.3%
2025partial year	11	15.7%

Which technologies does Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 59

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 39

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 25

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 20

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 2

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 84.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #4,961 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd against Largan Digital Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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