Where does Santec Holdings Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Santec Holdings Corporation ranks #7,768 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 Santec Holdings Corporation hold?

Santec Holdings Corporation holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Santec Holdings Corporation's Innovation Score?

Santec Holdings Corporation has an Innovation Score of 42.0 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Santec Holdings Corporation focus on?

Santec Holdings Corporation's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 18 patents, ranking #717 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Santec Holdings Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Santec Holdings Corporation's recent grant velocity is -5% 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 Santec Holdings Corporation's patents?

Santec Holdings Corporation's patents average 14.2 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 Santec Holdings Corporation 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

Santec Holdings Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 21 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Santec ranks #7,768 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 21 technology areas.

#7,768
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.0/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7768 · Foreign Corporation #7,768 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,768/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rhodes
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rhodes Technologies (±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 Santec’s 42.0 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 13.0 pts (31%) Velocity 4.3 pts (10%) Breadth 16.2 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agfa Graphics · near

42
Microsemi Semiconduc… · near

42
Nippon Thermostat · near

42
Santec Holdings · this assignee

42
Shenzhen Keya… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Santec's Innovation Score is 42.0/100 (top 31% 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 Santec?

Each dot is one of Santec’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). Santec’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Santec's grants concentrate

Santec Holdings Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 42.9% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Santec sits between Rhodes Technologies and Shenzhen DO Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd..

Santec's three-year grant acceleration

Santec Holdings Corporation shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Rhodes

42
Lhoist Recherche…

42
Safilo—SocietÀ Az…

42
Samsung Techwin

42
Schott Pharma Sch…

42
SDB IP Holdings

42
Shanghai Bright P…

42
Shenzhen DO Intel…

42
Santec Holdings ◀

42

What this shows Santec holds 42 patents at rank #7,766, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Santec

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,766 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Santec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Santec ranks #717 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Microsemi Semiconductor ULC 42 Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd. 42 Agfa Graphics NV 42 Shenzhen Keya Medical Technology Corporation 42

Santec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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Santec Holdings Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.4%
2016	2	4.8%
2017	3	7.1%
2018	5	11.9%
2019	9	21.4%
2020	5	11.9%
2021	3	7.1%
2022	3	7.1%
2023	2	4.8%
2024	6	14.3%
2025partial year	3	7.1%

Which technologies does Santec Holdings Corporation patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 18

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 10

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 10

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 9

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 6

H04B - Transmission 6

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 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

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

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 2

H04Q - Selecting 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Santec Holdings Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Santec Holdings Corporation's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 42.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #7,768 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Santec Holdings Corporation against Rhodes Technologies, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.