Where does Photocure ASA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Photocure ASA ranks #17,081 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 Photocure ASA hold?

Photocure ASA holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Photocure ASA's Innovation Score?

Photocure ASA has an Innovation Score of 41.5 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%).

What technology areas does Photocure ASA focus on?

Photocure ASA's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 14 patents, ranking #1,619 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Photocure ASA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Photocure ASA's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Photocure ASA's patents?

Photocure ASA's patents average 25.1 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 Photocure ASA 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

Photocure ASA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 10 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Photocure ranks #17,081 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 10 technology areas.

#17,081
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 25.1
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17081 · Foreign Corporation #17,081 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,081/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Papacks Sales
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Papacks Sales GMBH (±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 Photocure’s 41.5 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 10.0 pts (24%) Velocity 5.3 pts (13%) Breadth 11.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FaceTec · near

42
GE Jenbacher OG · near

42
Innodisk · near

42
Photocure ASA · this assignee

42
Rheinische Friedrich… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Photocure's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (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 Photocure?

Each dot is one of Photocure’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). Photocure’s own 25.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Photocure's grants concentrate

Photocure ASA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 82.4% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Photocure sits between Papacks Sales GMBH and Pliteq Inc..

Photocure's three-year grant acceleration

Photocure ASA shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Papacks Sales

17
Patriot Campers H…

17
Perceptive Sensor

17
Phonesoap

17
Pioneer Overseas

17
Pixart Imaging In…

17
Pixium Vision

17
Pliteq

17
Photocure ASA ◀

17

What this shows Photocure holds 17 patents at rank #17,070, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Photocure

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,070 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Photocure, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Photocure ranks #1,619 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

FaceTec, Inc. 42 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems-Universitaet Bonn 42 Innodisk Corporation 42 GE Jenbacher GmbH Co OG 42

Photocure's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Photocure ASA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.8%
2016	4	23.5%
2018	1	5.9%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	1	5.9%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	1	5.9%
2024	1	5.9%
2025partial year	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Photocure ASA patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 14

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 11

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 10

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

C07K - Peptides 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Photocure ASA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Photocure ASA's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 82.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #17,081 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Photocure ASA against Papacks Sales GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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