Where does Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. ranks #6,576 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 Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. hold?

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. 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%).

Is Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s patents?

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s patents average 18.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. focus on?

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 42 patents, ranking #360 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas 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 PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 19 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Olympus ranks #6,576 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 19 technology areas.

#6,576
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.4/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6576 · US Corporation #6,576 · 51 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,576/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oerlikon Metco (US)
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oerlikon Metco (US) 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 Olympus’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 13.6 pts (33%) Velocity 1.4 pts (3%) Breadth 15.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ener-Core Power · near

41
Goodbaby Child… · near

41
Hitachi Construction… · near

41
Olympus Scientific… · this assignee

41
Ooma · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Olympus'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 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 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 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 Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 82.4% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Olympus sits between Optical Logic Inc. and Polyvalor, Limited Partnership.

Olympus's three-year grant acceleration

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

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Orion Energy Syst…

51
Ovid Therapeutics

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Oerlikon Metco (U…

51
Oneevent

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Optum Technology

51
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Polyvalor Partner…

51
Olympus Scientifi… ◀

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What this shows Olympus holds 51 patents at rank #6,579, 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 #6,579 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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 G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Olympus ranks #360 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., Ltd. 41 Ooma, Inc. 41 Goodbaby Child Products Co., Ltd. 41 Ener-Core Power, Inc. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

National Oilwell Varco Norway AS 18.2 avg Clean Power Research, L.L.C. 18.2 avg Fidelity Information Services, LLC 18.2 avg Invista North America S.a.r.l. 18.2 avg

Olympus'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 · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	11.8%
2016	7	13.7%
2017	14	27.5%
2018	7	13.7%
2019	6	11.8%
2020	6	11.8%
2021	2	3.9%
2022	3	5.9%

Which technologies does Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 42

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 3

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 2

H04B - Transmission 2

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

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 1

Top 15 of 19 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 Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 82.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #6,576 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Corp. against Optical Logic Inc., 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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