Where does Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association ranks #5,241 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's patents?

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's patents average 11.5 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 Foreign Corporation

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association

Q: How many patents does Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association hold?

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 17 technology areas.

Q: What is Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's Innovation Score?

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association has an Innovation Score of 36.5 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: What technology areas does Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association focus on?

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 49 patents, ranking #317 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association 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 - 66 granted patents across 17 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Photonics ranks #5,241 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 17 technology areas.

#5,241
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.5/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5241 · Foreign Corporation #5,241 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,241/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ningbo Geely…
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., 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 Photonics’s 36.5 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 14.5 pts (40%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 14.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Andis · near

37
Closure Systems… · near

37
Epica International · near

37
Nguyen Gaming · near

37
Photonics Technology… · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Photonics's Innovation Score is 36.5/100 (top 46% 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 Photonics?

Each dot is one of Photonics’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). Photonics’s own 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Photonics's grants concentrate

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 74.2% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (18 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Photonics sits between Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. and Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG.

Photonics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association moved from 26 to 2 grants (0.08x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Ningbo Geely Auto…

66
Orbis

66
Orthosoft ULC

66
Pcms Holdings

66
Paul Hettich & KG

66
Quantumscape Batt…

66
R P Scherer

66
Röchling Automoti…

66
Photonics Technol… ◀

66

What this shows Photonics holds 66 patents at rank #5,240, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Photonics

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,240 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Photonics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Photonics ranks #317 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Closure Systems International Inc. 37 Andis Company 37 Nguyen Gaming LLC 37 Epica International, Inc. 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.5 here).

Festo AG & Co. KG 11.5 avg Shaanxi Lighte Optoelectronics Material Co., Ltd. 11.5 avg Creative Technology Corporation 11.5 avg Safran Electronics & Defense 11.5 avg

Photonics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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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Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.5%
2016	3	4.5%
2017	14	21.2%
2018	18	27.3%
2019	10	15.2%
2020	5	7.6%
2021	11	16.7%
2022	2	3.0%

Which technologies does Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 49

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 21

H04B - Transmission 13

H04J - Multiplex Communication 10

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 10

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 8

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

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

H03F - Amplifiers 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

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 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 74.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #5,241 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association against Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.5/100 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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