Where does Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. ranks #18,191 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 Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. hold?

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.6 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s patents?

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s patents average 15.2 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 Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, 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

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. focus on?

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 15 patents, ranking #97 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 7 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thorlabs ranks #18,191 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 7 technology areas.

#18,191
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.6/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18191 · US Corporation #18,191 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,191/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The United States…
CPC-NARROW H01S · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The United States Government as Represented by The Department of Veteran Affairs (±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 Thorlabs’s 31.6 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 9.8 pts (31%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 9.4 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Thorlabs Quantum · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thorlabs's Innovation Score is 31.6/100 (38th percentile 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 Thorlabs?

Each dot is one of Thorlabs’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). Thorlabs’s own 15.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Thorlabs's grants concentrate

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 93.8% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Thorlabs sits between The United States Government as Represented by The Department of Veteran Affairs and Toko Co., Ltd..

Thorlabs's three-year grant acceleration

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

The United States…

16
Theraclone Scienc…

16
Thetaray

16
Thirty-one Gifts

16
Thumbtack

16
Tintometer

16
Tintri

16
Toko

16
Thorlabs Quantum ◀

16

What this shows Thorlabs holds 16 patents at rank #18,211, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thorlabs

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,211 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…)

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

Thorlabs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 38th percentile higher than 38% 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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Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.3%
2016	3	18.8%
2017	4	25.0%
2018	3	18.8%
2019	1	6.3%
2020	1	6.3%
2022	1	6.3%
2025partial year	2	12.5%

Which technologies does Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. patent most?

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 15

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 10

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

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

H04B - Transmission 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 93.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #18,191 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Inc. against The United States Government as Represented by The Department of Veteran Affairs, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.6/100 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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