Where does Nanophoton Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nanophoton Corporation ranks #29,548 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 Nanophoton Corporation hold?

Nanophoton Corporation holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Nanophoton Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nanophoton Corporation has an Innovation Score of 27.8 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nanophoton Corporation focus on?

Nanophoton Corporation's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 7 patents, ranking #1,362 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

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

Nanophoton Corporation's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Nanophoton Corporation's patents?

Nanophoton Corporation's patents average 16.1 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 Nanophoton 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

Nanophoton Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Nanophoton ranks #29,548 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 5 technology areas.

#29,548
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.8/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29548 · Foreign Corporation #29,548 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,548/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nanjing Sanhome…
CPC-NARROW G02B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (±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 Nanophoton’s 27.8 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 8.0 pts (29%) Velocity 2.2 pts (8%) Breadth 7.9 pts (28%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nanophoton · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nanophoton's Innovation Score is 27.8/100 (25th percentile 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 Nanophoton?

Each dot is one of Nanophoton’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). Nanophoton’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nanophoton's grants concentrate

Nanophoton Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Nanophoton sits between Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Nationwide Industries, Inc..

Nanophoton's three-year grant acceleration

Nanophoton Corporation shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Nanjing Sanhome P…

9
Nano-second Techn…

9
Nanoear

9
Nanohive Medical

9
Nanoptics Incorpo…

9
Nantbioscience

9
National Institut…

9
Nationwide Indust…

9
Nanophoton ◀

9

What this shows Nanophoton holds 9 patents at rank #29,514, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nanophoton

By rank, the assignees closest to #29,514 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Nanophoton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Nanophoton Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	11.1%
2016	1	11.1%
2017	2	22.2%
2018	1	11.1%
2019	1	11.1%
2021	2	22.2%
2022	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Nanophoton Corporation patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Nanophoton Corporation's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #29,548 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nanophoton Corporation against Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.8/100 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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