Where does NeoPhotonics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NeoPhotonics Corporation ranks #8,083 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 NeoPhotonics Corporation hold?

NeoPhotonics Corporation holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is NeoPhotonics Corporation's Innovation Score?

NeoPhotonics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 41.4 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does NeoPhotonics Corporation focus on?

NeoPhotonics Corporation's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 16 patents, ranking #781 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

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

NeoPhotonics Corporation's recent grant velocity is -26% 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 NeoPhotonics Corporation's patents?

NeoPhotonics Corporation's patents average 17.0 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 NeoPhotonics 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 US Corporation

NeoPhotonics Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Neophotonics ranks #8,083 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 14 technology areas.

#8,083
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.4/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8083 · US Corporation #8,083 · 40 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,083/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Milacron
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Milacron 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 Neophotonics’s 41.4 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 12.8 pts (31%) Velocity 5.1 pts (12%) Breadth 13.2 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Global Life… · near

41
Huawei International… · near

41
NeoPhotonics · this assignee

41
Nippon Steel Nisshin · near

41
Pulmonx · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Neophotonics's Innovation Score is 41.4/100 (top 33% 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 Neophotonics?

Each dot is one of Neophotonics’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). Neophotonics’s own 17.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Neophotonics's grants concentrate

NeoPhotonics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Neophotonics sits between Milacron LLC and OMG, Inc..

Neophotonics's three-year grant acceleration

NeoPhotonics Corporation shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Milacron

40
NEC (China)

40
Norwegian Univers…

40
National Oilwell…

40
New York Blood Ce…

40
Numerex

40
Oceus Networks

40
OMG

40
Neophotonics ◀

40

What this shows NeoPhotonics holds 40 patents at rank #8,082, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NeoPhotonics

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,082 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NeoPhotonics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), NeoPhotonics ranks #781 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Huawei International Pte. Ltd. 41 Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd. 41 Pulmonx Corporation 41 Global Life Sciences Solutions Operations UK Limited 41

Neophotonics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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NeoPhotonics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	10.0%
2016	7	17.5%
2017	5	12.5%
2018	1	2.5%
2019	6	15.0%
2020	3	7.5%
2021	4	10.0%
2022	3	7.5%
2023	4	10.0%
2024	3	7.5%

Which technologies does NeoPhotonics Corporation patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 16

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 13

H04B - Transmission 9

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 9

H04J - Multiplex Communication 8

H04Q - Selecting 4

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 3

H03F - Amplifiers 2

H03G - Control OF Amplification 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

Top 14 of 14 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

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

NeoPhotonics Corporation's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #8,083 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NeoPhotonics Corporation against Milacron LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.4/100 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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