Where does Toptica Photonics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toptica Photonics, Inc. ranks #11,842 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 Toptica Photonics, Inc. hold?

Toptica Photonics, Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Toptica Photonics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Toptica Photonics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toptica Photonics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toptica Photonics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Toptica Photonics, Inc.'s patents?

Toptica Photonics, Inc.'s patents average 14.3 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 Toptica Photonics, 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

Toptica Photonics, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Toptica Photonics, Inc. focus on?

Toptica Photonics, 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 20 patents, ranking #75 of 855 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 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, Toptica ranks #11,842 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 7 technology areas.

#11,842
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11842 · US Corporation #11,842 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,842/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Taiyuan University…
CPC-NARROW H01S · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taiyuan University of Science and Technology (±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 Toptica’s 33.3 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 11.4 pts (34%) Velocity 4.0 pts (12%) Breadth 9.4 pts (28%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
NuoDB · near

33
POE Lang Enterprise · near

33
Austin Star Detonator · near

33
Toptica Photonics · this assignee

33
Wave Computing · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toptica's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th 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 Toptica?

Each dot is one of Toptica’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). Toptica’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Toptica's grants concentrate

Toptica Photonics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 76.9% 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 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Toptica sits between Tietex International, Ltd. and Taiyuan University of Science and Technology.

Toptica's three-year grant acceleration

Toptica Photonics, Inc. shows 3 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.

Tietex Internatio…

26
Tod's S P A

26
Tokuden

26
Topivert Pharma

26
Trinity North Ame…

26
Tubitak

26
TYR Tactical

26
Taiyuan Universit…

26
Toptica Photonics ◀

26

What this shows Toptica holds 26 patents at rank #11,836, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toptica

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,836 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Toptica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01S (Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimu…), Toptica ranks #75 of 855 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Wave Computing, Inc. 33 Austin Star Detonator Company 33 POE Lang Enterprise Co., Ltd. 33 NuoDB, Inc. 33

Toptica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% 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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Toptica Photonics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	15.4%
2016	3	11.5%
2017	4	15.4%
2018	3	11.5%
2019	3	11.5%
2020	1	3.8%
2021	1	3.8%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	2	7.7%
2025partial year	4	15.4%

Which technologies does Toptica Photonics, 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 20

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 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 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

Toptica Photonics, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toptica Photonics, 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), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01S
Ranked #11,842 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toptica Photonics, Inc. against Tietex International, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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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