Where does Sciaps, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sciaps, Inc. ranks #11,425 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 Sciaps, Inc. hold?

Sciaps, Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Sciaps, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sciaps, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sciaps, Inc. focus on?

Sciaps, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 21 patents, ranking #729 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sciaps, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sciaps, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -82% 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 Sciaps, Inc.'s patents?

Sciaps, Inc.'s patents average 22.8 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 Sciaps, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Sciaps, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 6 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sciaps ranks #11,425 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 6 technology areas.

#11,425
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 22.8
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11425 · US Corporation #11,425 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,425/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Safoco
CPC-NARROW G01N · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Safoco, Inc. (±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 Sciaps’s 35.5 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 11.5 pts (32%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 8.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 13.7 pts (38%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AppDynamics · near

36
Cggveritas Services · near

36
Krueger International · near

36
Sciaps · this assignee

36
Vyaire Medical · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sciaps's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Sciaps?

Each dot is one of Sciaps’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). Sciaps’s own 22.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sciaps's grants concentrate

Sciaps, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Sciaps sits between Safoco, Inc. and Shin-etsu Quartz Products Co., Ltd..

Sciaps's three-year grant acceleration

Sciaps, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Safoco

27
Sakti3

27
Sanden Automotive…

27
SCA Tissue France

27
Selle Royal S P A

27
Shanghai Hode Inf…

27
Shennan Circuits

27
Shin-etsu Quartz…

27
Sciaps ◀

27

What this shows Sciaps holds 27 patents at rank #11,419, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sciaps

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,419 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sciaps, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Sciaps ranks #729 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Vyaire Medical, Inc. 36 AppDynamics LLC 36 Cggveritas Services S.A. 36 Krueger International, Inc. 36

Sciaps's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% 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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Sciaps, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.4%
2016	8	29.6%
2017	5	18.5%
2018	6	22.2%
2019	1	3.7%
2020	1	3.7%
2021	2	7.4%
2024	1	3.7%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Sciaps, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 21

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 21

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

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 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

Sciaps, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sciaps, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #11,425 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sciaps, Inc. against Safoco, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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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