Where does Orca Computing Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orca Computing Limited ranks #42,155 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 Orca Computing Limited hold?

Orca Computing Limited holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Orca Computing Limited's Innovation Score?

Orca Computing Limited has an Innovation Score of 47.0 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Orca Computing Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Orca Computing Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Orca Computing Limited's patents?

Orca Computing Limited'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.

How is the Orca Computing Limited 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

Orca Computing Limited

Q: What technology areas does Orca Computing Limited focus on?

Orca Computing Limited's top technology area is 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) with 5 patents, ranking #466 of 1,354 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: 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; Optica).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orca ranks #42,155 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 7 technology areas.

#42,155
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (47.0/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R42155 · Foreign Corporation #42,155 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #42,155/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oralect Licensing
CPC-NARROW G02F · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oralect Licensing, 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 Orca’s 47.0 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 6.7 pts (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (43%) Breadth 9.4 pts (20%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Elasmogen · near

47
Orca Computing · this assignee

47
Sanhua (HANGZHOU)… · near

47
Sunlight Photonics · near

47
TomTom International… · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orca's Innovation Score is 47.0/100 (top 20% 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 Orca?

Each dot is one of Orca’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). Orca’s own 18.2 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.

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

Where Orca's grants concentrate

Orca Computing Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under 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; Optica). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Orca sits between Oralect Licensing, Ltd. and Original Biomedicals Co., Ltd.

Orca's three-year grant acceleration

Orca Computing Limited shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Oralect Licensing

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Orano DS—DÉMANTÈL…

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Orbit Communicati…

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Organic Energy

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What this shows Orca holds 6 patents at rank #42,087, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orca

By rank, the assignees closest to #42,087 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Orca, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…), Orca ranks #466 of 1,354 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Elasmogen Ltd 47 Sunlight Photonics Inc. 47 Sanhua (HANGZHOU) Micro Channel Heat Exchanger Co., Ltd. 47 TomTom International B.V. 47

Orca's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Orca Computing Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	1	16.7%
2024	4	66.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Orca Computing Limited patent most?

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 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 3

H04B - Transmission 2

G11C - Static Stores 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

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

Orca Computing Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orca Computing Limited's lead technology class is 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; Optica), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02F
Ranked #42,155 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orca Computing Limited against Oralect Licensing, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.0/100 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

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.