Where does Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. ranks #9,896 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 Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. hold?

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.4 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 Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. 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

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. focus on?

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 11 patents, ranking #161 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 27 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: 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 ).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Teco ranks #9,896 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 27 technology areas.

#9,896
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9896 · Foreign Corporation #9,896 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,896/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tarana Wireless
CPC-FOCUS B33Y · 27 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tarana Wireless, 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 Teco’s 39.1 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 12.1 pts (31%) Velocity 2.4 pts (6%) Breadth 18.4 pts (47%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GKN Driveline North… · near

39
Numecent Holdings · near

39
Tokai Kogyo · near

39
Teco Image Systems · this assignee

39
Turning Point… · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Teco's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 Teco?

Each dot is one of Teco’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). Teco’s own 10.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Teco's grants concentrate

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 34.4% of grants classified under 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 ). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Teco sits between Thalmic Labs Inc. and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited.

Teco's three-year grant acceleration

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Thalmic Labs

32
TK Elevator Innov…

32
Tyco Services

32
Tarana Wireless

32
Telepathy Labs

32
Terralux

32
Tesseract Ventures

32
The Hong Kong Res…

32
Teco Image Systems ◀

32

What this shows Teco holds 32 patents at rank #9,898, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Teco

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,898 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Teco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B33Y (Additive Manufacturing), Teco ranks #161 of 1,250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc. 39 GKN Driveline North America, Inc. 39 Tokai Kogyo Co., Ltd. 39 Numecent Holdings, Inc. 39

Teco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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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Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.1%
2016	2	6.3%
2017	5	15.6%
2018	4	12.5%
2019	9	28.1%
2020	3	9.4%
2021	2	6.3%
2022	1	3.1%
2023	4	12.5%
2025partial year	1	3.1%

Which technologies does Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. patent most?

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 11

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 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 4

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 1

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

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 1

F16H - Gearing 1

Top 15 of 27 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

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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 ), 34.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #9,896 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. against Thalmic Labs Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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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