Where does nLIGHT, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), nLIGHT, Inc. ranks #1,892 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 nLIGHT, Inc. hold?

nLIGHT, Inc. holds 213 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is nLIGHT, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

nLIGHT, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.0 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is nLIGHT, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

nLIGHT, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for nLIGHT, Inc.'s patents?

nLIGHT, Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 nLIGHT, Inc. 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

nLIGHT, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does nLIGHT, Inc. focus on?

nLIGHT, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 132 patents, ranking #7 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 213 granted patents across 50 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, nlight ranks #1,892 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 213 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,892
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.0/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1892 · US Corporation #1,892 · 213 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 213 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,892/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Netskope
CPC-WIDE H01S · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Netskope, 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 nlight’s 58.0 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 18.5 pts (32%) Velocity 2.7 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Therabody · near

58
Toshiba Medical… · near

58
National Institute… · near

58
nLIGHT · this assignee

58
Unlikely Artificial… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows nlight's Innovation Score is 58.0/100 (top 5% 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 nlight?

Each dot is one of nlight’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). nlight’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How nlight's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, nLIGHT, Inc. received 117 grants versus 91 in 2015–2019 (+29% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 55 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 13. Lead class H01S accounts for 62% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Netskope, Inc. (#1,891) and Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (#1,899).

nlight's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, nLIGHT, Inc. moved from 107 to 43 grants (0.40x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,872. See the growth leaderboard.

Netskope

213
Pratt Corrugated…

213
Robert Bosch Tool

213
Soliton

213
nlight ◀

213
Agco International

212
The Board of Rege…

212
UniversitÉ D'aix-…

212
Airbus Helicopter…

211

What this shows nLIGHT holds 213 patents at rank #1,895, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near nLIGHT

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,895 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for nLIGHT, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…), nLIGHT ranks #7 of 855 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Unlikely Artificial Intelligence Limited 58 National Institute OF Meteorological Sciences 58 Therabody, Inc. 58 Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. 19.7 avg Global Tel*Link Corporation 19.7 avg Telenav, Inc. 19.7 avg Intuit Inc. 19.7 avg

nlight's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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nLIGHT, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	14	6.6%
2017	21	9.9%
2018	23	10.8%
2019	33	15.5%
2020	55	25.8%
2021	19	8.9%
2022	16	7.5%
2023	13	6.1%
2024	14	6.6%
2025partial year	5	2.3%

Which technologies does nLIGHT, Inc. patent most?

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 132

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 130

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 55

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 22

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 21

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 20

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 20

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 17

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 8

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 6

Top 15 of 50 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

nLIGHT, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

nLIGHT, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 62% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #1,892 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare nLIGHT, Inc. against Netskope, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.0/100 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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