Where does Profoto AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Profoto AB ranks #21,633 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Profoto AB hold?

Profoto AB holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Profoto AB's Innovation Score?

Profoto AB has an Innovation Score of 31.6 out of 100 (top 62% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Profoto AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Profoto AB's recent grant velocity is -70% 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 Profoto AB's patents?

Profoto AB's patents average 18.0 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 Profoto AB 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

Profoto AB

Q: What technology areas does Profoto AB focus on?

Profoto AB's top technology area is G03B (APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: G03B (APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Profoto ranks #21,633 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 11 technology areas.

#21,633
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 62%
by Innovation Score (31.6/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21633 · Foreign Corporation #21,633 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,633/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH PackIt
CPC-FOCUS G03B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Packit, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Profoto AB · this assignee

32
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Profoto's Innovation Score is 31.6/100 (top 62% 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 Profoto's grants concentrate

Profoto AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 84.6% of grants classified under G03B (APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Profoto sits between PPI Pyungwha Co., Ltd and Packit, Llc.

PPI Pyungwha

13
Pratt & Miller En…

13
Princo

13
Prinx Chengshan (…

13
Pronova Biopharma…

13
Punch Powertrain…

13
PURA Stainless

13
Packit

13
Profoto AB ◀

13

What this shows Profoto holds 13 patents at rank #21,598, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Profoto

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,598 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR P…)

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

Profoto's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 Top 62% higher than 38% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Profoto AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	15.4%
2018	3	23.1%
2019	5	38.5%
2020	3	23.1%

Which technologies does Profoto AB patent most?

G03B - APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR 11

H05B - ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL 8

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 4

H04M - TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION 3

F16M - FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS 1

F21V - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

G05F - SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

H04R - LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

H01J - ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS 1

H01T - SPARK GAPS; OVERVOLTAGE ARRESTERS USING SPARK GAPS; SPARKING PLUGS; CORONA DEVICES; GENERATING IONS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO NON-ENCLOSED GASES 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,633

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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