Is Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences's recent grant velocity is +75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences

Q: Where does Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences ranks #5,794 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences 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 PatentsView assignee record - 59 granted patents across 34 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shanghai ranks #5,794 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 59 patents across 34 technology areas.

#5,794
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.7/100): 7.8
avg claims per patent: +75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5794 · Foreign Corporation #5,794 · 59 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 59 grants
UPPER-Q #5,794/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Revision Military r L
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Revision Military S.a.r.l. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Microfabrica · near

52
Electrolux Professio… · near

52
General Engineering… · near

52
Shanghai Institute O… · this assignee

52
Skaichips · near

52
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-SPARSE, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #5,794 of 50,000; Innovation Score 51.7/100 sits in the top 11% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Revision Military S.a.r.l. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences has been granted 59 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences at #5,794 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 34 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 7.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS). As a Foreign Corporation, Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Shanghai sits between Revision Military S.a.r.l. (59 patents, rank #5,791) and THE William M. Yarbrough Foundation (59 patents, rank #5,799) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 51.7/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 35 grants, compared with 20 in the 2015–2019 window, a +75% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences's 7.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 34 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Revision Military…

59
Shanghai IC R&D C…

59
Si-bone

59
Sitting MAN

59
Silc

59
Simon Fraser Univ…

59
Spectra Logic

59
THE William M Yar…

59
Shanghai Institut… ◀

59

What this shows Shanghai holds 59 patents at rank #5,795, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shanghai

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,795 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shanghai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Electrolux Professional, Inc. 52 Skaichips Co., Ltd. 52 General Engineering & Research Llc 52 Microfabrica Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.8 here).

NTT Docomo, Inc. 7.8 avg Custom Molded Products, Llc 7.8 avg Daihen Corporation 7.8 avg Karl Storz Gmbh & Co. KG 7.7 avg

Shanghai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 50,000 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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Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	6.8%
2016	6	10.2%
2017	6	10.2%
2018	2	3.4%
2019	2	3.4%
2020	3	5.1%
2021	8	13.6%
2022	5	8.5%
2023	10	16.9%
2024	9	15.3%
2025partial year	4	6.8%

Which technologies does Shanghai Institute Of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences patent most?

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 23

G01J - MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRARED, VISIBLE OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY 16

G03F - PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; 15

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 10

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 9

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 8

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 5

C30B - SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE ; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WI 4

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 4

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

C03C - CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES OR VITREOUS ENAMELS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS, MINERALS OR SLAGS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS 3

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

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 2

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 2

F16H - GEARING 2

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,794

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
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