Where does Photonis France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Photonis France ranks #23,195 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 Photonis France hold?

Photonis France holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Photonis France's Innovation Score?

Photonis France has an Innovation Score of 41.0 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Photonis France focus on?

Photonis France's top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 10 patents, ranking #205 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Photonis France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Photonis France's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Photonis France's patents?

Photonis France'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 Photonis France 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

Photonis France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Photonis ranks #23,195 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#23,195
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.0/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23195 · Foreign Corporation #23,195 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,195/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pfnonwovens
CPC-NARROW H01J · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pfnonwovens LLC (±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 Photonis’s 41.0 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 8.9 pts (22%) Velocity 13.3 pts (32%) Breadth 10.6 pts (26%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Photonis France · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Photonis's Innovation Score is 41.0/100 (top 34% 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 Photonis?

Each dot is one of Photonis’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). Photonis’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Photonis's grants concentrate

Photonis France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Photonis sits between Pfnonwovens LLC and Piedek Technical Laboratory.

Photonis's three-year grant acceleration

Photonis France shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Pfnonwovens

12
Pharmazell

12
Phase Scientific…

12
Phinia Delphi Lux…

12
Photronics

12
Phovel

12
Picomole

12
Piedek Technical…

12
Photonis France ◀

12

What this shows Photonis holds 12 patents at rank #23,167, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Photonis

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,167 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Photonis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Photonis France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	25.0%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2023	3	25.0%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Photonis France patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 10

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

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 1

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

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Photonis France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Photonis France's lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #23,195 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Photonis France against Pfnonwovens LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.0/100 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

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