Where does Olympus Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Olympus Corporation ranks #75 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 Olympus Corporation hold?

Olympus Corporation holds 4,844 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 183 technology areas.

What is Olympus Corporation's Innovation Score?

Olympus Corporation has an Innovation Score of 64.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Olympus Corporation focus on?

Olympus Corporation's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 2,758 patents, ranking #3 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 183 CPC subclasses total.

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

Olympus Corporation's recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Olympus Corporation's patents?

Olympus Corporation's patents average 11.9 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 Olympus 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

Olympus Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 4,844 granted patents across 183 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Olympus ranks #75 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 4,844 patents across 183 technology areas.

#75
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.6/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R75 · Foreign Corporation #75 · 4,844 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 4.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #75/49,997
NEAR-PEER Verizon Patent and…
CPC-WIDE A61B · 183 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (±18 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 Olympus’s 64.6 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 29.3 pts (45%) Velocity 3.1 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Verily Life Sciences · near

65
HRL Laboratories · near

65
Olympus · this assignee

65
San Diego State… · near

65
Trinamix · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Olympus's Innovation Score is 64.6/100 (top 2% 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 Olympus?

Each dot is one of Olympus’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). Olympus’s own 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Olympus's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Olympus Corporation received 1,775 grants versus 2,928 in 2015–2019 (-39% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 668 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 175. Lead class A61B accounts for 56.9% of the portfolio across 183 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bank of America Corporation (#71) and Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. (#79).

Olympus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Olympus Corporation moved from 1,663 to 780 grants (0.47x 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 #2,764. See the growth leaderboard.

Bank of America

4,988
Vmware

4,914
Facebook

4,875
Verizon Patent an…

4,862
Olympus ◀

4,844
Schlumberger Tech…

4,606
Globalfoundries

4,547
Sumitomo Electric…

4,378
Guangdong Oppo Mo…

4,374

What this shows Olympus holds 4,844 patents at rank #75, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Olympus

By rank, the assignees closest to #75 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Olympus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Olympus ranks #3 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

HRL Laboratories, LLC 65 Trinamix GMBH 65 San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation 65 Verily Life Sciences LLC 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.9 here).

Dolby International AB 11.9 avg Imflux Inc. 11.9 avg Karl Storz SE & Co. KG 11.9 avg SK On Co., Ltd. 11.9 avg

Olympus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Olympus Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	424	8.8%
2016	576	11.9%
2017	638	13.2%
2018	622	12.8%
2019	668	13.8%
2020	559	11.5%
2021	436	9.0%
2022	338	7.0%
2023	175	3.6%
2024	267	5.5%
2025partial year	141	2.9%

Which technologies does Olympus Corporation patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2,758

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1,893

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,567

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 554

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 284

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 231

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 214

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 175

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 158

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 151

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 101

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 94

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 87

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 83

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 70

Top 15 of 183 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Olympus Corporation's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 56.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #75 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Olympus Corporation against Bank of America Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.