Where does Olympus Imaging Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Olympus Imaging Corp. ranks #4,428 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 Imaging Corp. hold?

Olympus Imaging Corp. holds 80 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2015, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Olympus Imaging Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Olympus Imaging Corp. has an Innovation Score of 33.1 out of 100 (43rd 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 Olympus Imaging Corp. focus on?

Olympus Imaging Corp.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 56 patents, ranking #324 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Olympus Imaging Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Olympus Imaging Corp.'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 Olympus Imaging Corp.'s patents?

Olympus Imaging Corp.'s patents average 14.3 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 Imaging Corp. 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 Imaging Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 80 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2015. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Olympus ranks #4,428 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 80 patents across 7 technology areas.

#4,428
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.1/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4428 · Foreign Corporation #4,428 · 80 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 80 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,428/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nien Made Enterprise
CPC-NARROW H04N · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nien Made Enterprise 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 Olympus’s 33.1 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 15.2 pts (46%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (28%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amphenol East Asia… · near

33
Mtek-smart · near

33
NIO Nextev · near

33
Olympus Imaging · this assignee

33
Opko Biologics · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Olympus's Innovation Score is 33.1/100 (43rd 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 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 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Olympus's grants concentrate

Olympus Imaging Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). By volume, Olympus sits between Nihon Plast Co., Ltd. and SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., Ltd..

Nihon Plast

80
Nippon Hoso Kyokai

80
Norma Germany

80
Nien Made Enterpr…

80
Pratt Retail Spec…

80
Shenzhen BYD Auto…

80
Sila Nanotechnolo…

80
SK Biopharmaceuti…

80
Olympus Imaging ◀

80

What this shows Olympus holds 80 patents at rank #4,428, 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 #4,428 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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 H04N (Pictorial Communication), Olympus ranks #324 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

NIO Nextev Limited 33 Amphenol East Asia Electronic Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. 33 Opko Biologics Ltd. 33 Mtek-smart Corporation 33

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Zhejiang Sanhua Automotive Components Co., Ltd. 14.3 avg KHS Corpoplast GMBH 14.3 avg Marelli Europe S.P.A. 14.3 avg Biotronik SE & Co. KG 14.3 avg

Olympus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Olympus Imaging Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	80	100.0%

Which technologies does Olympus Imaging Corp. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 56

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 29

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 17

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Olympus Imaging Corp.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #4,428 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Olympus Imaging Corp. against Nihon Plast Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.1/100 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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