Where does Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy ranks #49,429 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 Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy hold?

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy's Innovation Score?

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy has an Innovation Score of 23.8 out of 100 (13th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy'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 Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy's patents?

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy's patents average 13.8 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 Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy 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

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy

Q: What technology areas does Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy focus on?

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy's top technology area is H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oxford ranks #49,429 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 7 technology areas.

#49,429
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 13th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.8/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R49429 · Foreign Corporation #49,429 · 5 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #49,429/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ovonyx
CPC-NARROW H10F · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 23.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ovonyx 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oxford Instruments… · this assignee

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oxford's Innovation Score is 23.8/100 (13th 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.

Where Oxford's grants concentrate

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Oxford sits between Ovonyx Inc. and Oxy Vinyls, LP.

Ovonyx

5
Owner Revolution

5
Oxford Genetics

5
Oxford Immunotec

5
Oxitone Medical

5
Oxla sp z o o

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Oxular

5
Oxy Vinyls

5
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5

What this shows Oxford holds 5 patents at rank #49,436, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oxford

By rank, the assignees closest to #49,436 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Rad…)

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

Oxford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 13th percentile higher than 13% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	40.0%
2016	2	40.0%
2017	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy patent most?

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 1

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#49,429

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

23.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy's lead technology class is H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10F
Ranked #49,429 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oxford Instruments Analytical Oy against Ovonyx Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 23.8/100 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.