Where does Sense Photonics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sense Photonics, Inc. ranks #16,343 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 Sense Photonics, Inc. hold?

Sense Photonics, Inc. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Sense Photonics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sense Photonics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.9 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Sense Photonics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sense Photonics, Inc.'s patents?

Sense Photonics, Inc.'s patents average 20.2 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 Sense Photonics, 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

Sense Photonics, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Sense Photonics, Inc. focus on?

Sense Photonics, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 18 patents, ranking #327 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sense ranks #16,343 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 9 technology areas.

#16,343
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (37.9/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16343 · US Corporation #16,343 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,343/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Scientific Holdings
CPC-NARROW G01S · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scientific Holdings, 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.

How Sense’s 37.9 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 10.2 pts (27%) Velocity 5.0 pts (13%) Breadth 10.6 pts (28%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sense Photonics · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sense's Innovation Score is 37.9/100 (top 42% 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 Sense?

Each dot is one of Sense’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). Sense’s own 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sense's grants concentrate

Sense Photonics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Sense sits between Scientific Holdings, LLC and Shenzhen Airsmart Technology Co., Ltd.

Sense's three-year grant acceleration

Sense Photonics, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Scientific Holdin…

18
Sea Tel

18
Sederma

18
Semprius

18
Sensient Colors

18
Serum Institute o…

18
Shawshank Ledz

18
Shenzhen Airsmart…

18
Sense Photonics ◀

18

What this shows Sense holds 18 patents at rank #16,367, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sense

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,367 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Sense's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Sense Photonics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	11.1%
2020	1	5.6%
2021	5	27.8%
2024	6	33.3%
2025partial year	4	22.2%

Which technologies does Sense Photonics, Inc. patent most?

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 18

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 10

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 9

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 9

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 9

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 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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

Sense Photonics, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Arra), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #16,343 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sense Photonics, Inc. against Scientific Holdings, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.9/100 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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