Where does Orbotech Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orbotech Ltd. ranks #7,749 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 Orbotech Ltd. hold?

Orbotech Ltd. holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Orbotech Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Orbotech Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 56.8 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Orbotech Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orbotech Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +64% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Orbotech Ltd.'s patents?

Orbotech Ltd.'s patents average 21.6 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 Orbotech Ltd. 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

Orbotech Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Orbotech Ltd. focus on?

Orbotech Ltd.'s top technology area is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components) with 11 patents, ranking #549 of 3,545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 41 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: H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orbotech ranks #7,749 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 41 technology areas.

#7,749
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.8/100): 21.6
avg claims per patent: +64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7749 · Foreign Corporation #7,749 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,749/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nextivity
CPC-WIDE H05K · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nextivity, 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 Orbotech’s 56.8 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 13.0 pts (23%) Velocity 8.2 pts (14%) Breadth 22.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mettler-Toledo · near

57
Nissha · near

57
Orbotech · this assignee

57
Joy Global Undergrou… · near

57
Vrije Universiteit… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orbotech's Innovation Score is 56.8/100 (top 6% 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 Orbotech?

Each dot is one of Orbotech’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). Orbotech’s own 21.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Orbotech's grants concentrate

Orbotech Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 26.2% of grants classified under H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Orbotech sits between Nextivity, Inc. and Overstock.com, Inc..

Orbotech's three-year grant acceleration

Orbotech Ltd. shows 16 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.

Nextivity

42
Nogra Pharma

42
Northwestern Poly…

42
Osaka Prefecture…

42
Orthofix S R L

42
Ortronics

42
Ouraring

42
Overstock com

42
Orbotech ◀

42

What this shows Orbotech holds 42 patents at rank #7,749, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orbotech

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,749 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05K (Printed Circuits)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Orbotech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05K (Printed Circuits), Orbotech ranks #549 of 3,545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Nissha Co., Ltd. 57 Vrije Universiteit Brussel 57 Joy Global Underground Mining LLC 57 Mettler-Toledo GmbH 57

Orbotech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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

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

Orbotech Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.4%
2016	4	9.5%
2017	1	2.4%
2018	2	4.8%
2019	6	14.3%
2020	5	11.9%
2021	2	4.8%
2022	4	9.5%
2023	4	9.5%
2024	8	19.0%
2025partial year	5	11.9%

Which technologies does Orbotech Ltd. patent most?

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

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 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

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 6

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 6

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

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 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

Top 15 of 41 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

Orbotech Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orbotech Ltd.'s lead technology class is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components), 26.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05K
Ranked #7,749 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orbotech Ltd. against Nextivity, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.8/100 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.