Where does Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG ranks #25,048 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 Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 29.7 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 14.1 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 Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG 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

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is 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) with 7 patents, ranking #378 of 1,354 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: 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; Optica).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Qioptiq ranks #25,048 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 6 technology areas.

#25,048
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.7/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25048 · Foreign Corporation #25,048 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,048/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Qingdao Hater…
CPC-NARROW G02F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Qingdao Hater Special Refrigerator 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 Qioptiq’s 29.7 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 8.6 pts (29%) Velocity 4.0 pts (13%) Breadth 8.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Anabio · near

30
MorphoTrak · near

30
Qioptiq Photonics & KG · this assignee

30
Shenzhen EpoStar · near

30
TEK Global S R L · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Qioptiq's Innovation Score is 29.7/100 (32nd 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Qioptiq?

Each dot is one of Qioptiq’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). Qioptiq’s own 14.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Qioptiq's grants concentrate

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under 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; Optica). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Qioptiq sits between Qingdao Hater Special Refrigerator Co., Ltd and Radio Physics Solutions Ltd..

Qioptiq's three-year grant acceleration

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG shows 3 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.

Qingdao Hater Spe…

11
Qorvo Internation…

11
QRI Group

11
Qualcomm Connecte…

11
Quantapore

11
Quantum Semicondu…

11
RA Medical Systems

11
Radio Physics Sol…

11
Qioptiq Photonics… ◀

11

What this shows Qioptiq holds 11 patents at rank #25,035, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Qioptiq

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,035 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Qioptiq, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02F (Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light…), Qioptiq ranks #378 of 1,354 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

MorphoTrak, LLC 30 TEK Global S.R.L. 30 Shenzhen EpoStar Electronics Limited Co. 30 Anabio Technologies Limited 30

Qioptiq's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	18.2%
2018	1	9.1%
2019	3	27.3%
2020	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

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 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

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 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is 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; Optica), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02F
Ranked #25,048 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG against Qingdao Hater Special Refrigerator Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.7/100 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

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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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