Where does Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. ranks #2,215 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 Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. hold?

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. holds 178 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +7% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Topcon Positioning Systems, 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

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. focus on?

Topcon Positioning Systems, 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 70 patents, ranking #82 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 178 granted patents across 57 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: 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, Topcon ranks #2,215 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 178 patents across 57 technology areas.

#2,215
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2215 · US Corporation #2,215 · 178 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 178 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,215/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oxford Nanopore
CPC-WIDE G01S · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (±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 Topcon’s 57.5 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 17.9 pts (31%) Velocity 4.0 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brady Worldwide · near

58
New Jersey Institute… · near

58
Pratt Corrugated… · near

58
Topcon Positioning… · this assignee

58
Hisense Laser Display · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Topcon's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Topcon?

Each dot is one of Topcon’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). Topcon’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Topcon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. received 91 grants versus 85 in 2015–2019 (+7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 6. Lead class G01S accounts for 39.3% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (#2,211) and Archer-daniels-midland Company (#2,219).

Topcon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. moved from 70 to 42 grants (0.60x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,444. See the growth leaderboard.

Oxford Nanopore

178
Rockley Photonics

178
TE Connectivity S…

178
Texas Tech Univer…

178
Uacj

178
Upm-kymmene

178
Topcon Positionin… ◀

178
Acco Brands

177
Archer-daniels-mi…

177

What this shows Topcon holds 178 patents at rank #2,215, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Topcon

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,215 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Topcon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Topcon ranks #82 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc. 58 New Jersey Institute of Technology 58 Brady Worldwide, Inc. 58 Hisense Laser Display Co., Ltd 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. 17.7 avg Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 17.7 avg Sprint Spectrum LLC 17.7 avg Sprint Communications Company, L.P. 17.7 avg

Topcon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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.

View data table

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	7.9%
2016	17	9.6%
2017	21	11.8%
2018	12	6.7%
2019	21	11.8%
2020	34	19.1%
2021	15	8.4%
2022	6	3.4%
2023	17	9.6%
2024	19	10.7%
2025partial year	2	1.1%

Which technologies does Topcon Positioning Systems, 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 70

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 32

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 30

H04B - Transmission 19

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 18

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 10

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 7

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 7

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

Top 15 of 57 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

Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Topcon Positioning Systems, 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), 39.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #2,215 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. against Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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

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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

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