Where does Silicon Light Machines Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Silicon Light Machines Corporation ranks #16,366 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 Silicon Light Machines Corporation hold?

Silicon Light Machines Corporation holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Silicon Light Machines Corporation's Innovation Score?

Silicon Light Machines Corporation has an Innovation Score of 45.6 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Silicon Light Machines Corporation focus on?

Silicon Light Machines Corporation's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 16 patents, ranking #781 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Silicon Light Machines Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Silicon Light Machines Corporation's recent grant velocity is +333% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Silicon Light Machines Corporation's patents?

Silicon Light Machines Corporation's patents average 17.8 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 Silicon Light Machines 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 US Corporation

Silicon Light Machines Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 16 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, Silicon ranks #16,366 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 16 technology areas.

#16,366
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.6/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +333%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16366 · US Corporation #16,366 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,366/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Sunlord
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +333% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Sunlord Electronics Co., Ltd. (±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 Silicon’s 45.6 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 (22%) Velocity 10.7 pts (23%) Breadth 14.1 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Silicon Light Machines · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Silicon's Innovation Score is 45.6/100 (top 23% 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 Silicon?

Each dot is one of Silicon’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). Silicon’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Silicon's grants concentrate

Silicon Light Machines Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Silicon sits between Shenzhen Sunlord Electronics Co., Ltd. and Siya, Inc..

Silicon's three-year grant acceleration

Silicon Light Machines Corporation shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Shenzhen Sunlord

18
Shenzhen Yile Dyn…

18
Shield Restraint…

18
Sightline Payments

18
Silicon Motion Te…

18
Singlestore

18
Sitepro

18
Siya

18
Silicon Light Mac… ◀

18

What this shows Silicon holds 18 patents at rank #16,379, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Silicon

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,379 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Silicon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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Silicon Light Machines Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.6%
2016	1	5.6%
2017	1	5.6%
2020	3	16.7%
2021	2	11.1%
2022	2	11.1%
2023	2	11.1%
2024	4	22.2%
2025partial year	2	11.1%

Which technologies does Silicon Light Machines Corporation patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 6

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; 5

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

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 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 1

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 1

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 15 of 16 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

Silicon Light Machines Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Silicon Light Machines Corporation's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #16,366 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Silicon Light Machines Corporation against Shenzhen Sunlord Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.6/100 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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