Where does Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH ranks #8,678 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 Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH hold?

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's Innovation Score?

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH focus on?

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 25 patents, ranking #733 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's recent grant velocity is +350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's patents?

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's patents average 14.9 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 Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH 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

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 14 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schölly ranks #8,678 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 14 technology areas.

#8,678
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8678 · Foreign Corporation #8,678 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,678/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safe Foods
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safe Foods Corporation (±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 Schölly’s 40.2 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 12.6 pts (31%) Velocity 5.5 pts (14%) Breadth 13.2 pts (33%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biodesix · near

40
Corium International · near

40
ForSight Vision4 · near

40
Kyowa Hakko BIO · near

40
Schölly Fiberoptic · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schölly's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 Schölly?

Each dot is one of Schölly’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). Schölly’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Schölly's grants concentrate

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 67.6% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Schölly sits between Safe Foods Corporation and Springfield, Inc..

Schölly's three-year grant acceleration

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH shows 14 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.

Safe Foods

37
Saint-augustin Ca…

37
San Diego State U…

37
Satisloh

37
Sentinel Labs Isr…

37
Shenzhen Treasure…

37
Sound United

37
Springfield

37
Schölly Fiberoptic ◀

37

What this shows Schölly holds 37 patents at rank #8,682, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schölly

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,682 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Schölly, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Schölly ranks #733 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Biodesix, Inc. 40 ForSight Vision4, Inc. 40 Kyowa Hakko BIO Co., Ltd. 40 Corium International, Inc. 40

Schölly's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.7%
2017	1	2.7%
2019	4	10.8%
2020	7	18.9%
2021	6	16.2%
2022	4	10.8%
2023	6	16.2%
2024	4	10.8%
2025partial year	4	10.8%

Which technologies does Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 25

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 18

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

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 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

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

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

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

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 67.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #8,678 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH against Safe Foods Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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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