Where does Nanometrics Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nanometrics Incorporated ranks #13,568 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 Nanometrics Incorporated hold?

Nanometrics Incorporated holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Nanometrics Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Nanometrics Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 36.3 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nanometrics Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nanometrics Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Nanometrics Incorporated's patents?

Nanometrics Incorporated's patents average 24.8 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 Nanometrics Incorporated 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

Nanometrics Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Nanometrics Incorporated focus on?

Nanometrics Incorporated's top technology area is 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;) with 14 patents, ranking #108 of 595 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: 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;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nanometrics ranks #13,568 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 9 technology areas.

#13,568
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.3/100): 24.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13568 · US Corporation #13,568 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,568/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Naber Holding &
CPC-NARROW G03F · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Naber Holding GmbH & Co. (±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 Nanometrics’s 36.3 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 10.8 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 14.9 pts (41%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nanometrics… · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Nanometrics's Innovation Score is 36.3/100 (top 47% 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 Nanometrics?

Each dot is one of Nanometrics’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). Nanometrics’s own 24.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nanometrics's grants concentrate

Nanometrics Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under 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;). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Nanometrics sits between Nottingham Trent University and Nexenta Systems, Inc..

Nottingham Trent…

22
Nova Perenne BV

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Naber Holding &

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Nan Juen Internat…

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Netbase Solutions

22
Neuralink

22
New York Stem Cel…

22
Nexenta Systems

22
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22

What this shows Nanometrics holds 22 patents at rank #13,577, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nanometrics

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,577 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces)

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

Nanometrics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Nanometrics Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	18.2%
2016	2	9.1%
2017	3	13.6%
2018	7	31.8%
2019	6	27.3%

Which technologies does Nanometrics Incorporated patent most?

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

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 13

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 11

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

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

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Nanometrics Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nanometrics Incorporated's lead technology class is 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;), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03F
Ranked #13,568 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nanometrics Incorporated against Nottingham Trent University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.3/100 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

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