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Innovations in the physical design, materials, fabrication, or packaging of photodetectors and optical sensor elements, including thermoelectric, NIR-compliant, and self-mixing interference types, to improve performance or integration.
9,842 US filings from 2,063 companies since 2023 · 2023: 3,206 · 2024: 3,320 · 2025: 2,429 · 2026 YTD: 887
Photometry / Spectrometry
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 383 | 146 | 140 | 71 | 26 | -49.3% |
| 2 | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | 315 | 104 | 143 | 55 | 13 | -61.5% |
| 3 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | 239 | 64 | 90 | 66 | 19 | -26.7% |
| 4 | CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 221 | 82 | 78 | 49 | 12 | -37.2% |
| 5 | VIAVI Solutions Inc. | 178 | 57 | 56 | 48 | 17 | -14.3% |
| 6 | HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. | 171 | 66 | 56 | 41 | 8 | -26.8% |
| 7 | Apple Inc. | 139 | 41 | 49 | 38 | 11 | -22.4% |
| 8 | LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD. | 137 | 43 | 40 | 38 | 16 | -5.0% |
| 9 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 119 | 39 | 36 | 39 | 5 | +8.3% |
| 10 | GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. | 109 | 37 | 32 | 26 | 14 | -18.8% |
| 11 | INTEL CORPORATION | 100 | 20 | 28 | 40 | 12 | +42.9% |
| 12 | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | 96 | 25 | 35 | 29 | 7 | -17.1% |
| 13 | Japan Display Inc. | 94 | 39 | 32 | 21 | 2 | -34.4% |
| 14 | BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. | 89 | 26 | 45 | 15 | 3 | -66.7% |
| 15 | TDK CORPORATION | 89 | 25 | 25 | 29 | 10 | +16.0% |
| 16 | RAYTHEON COMPANY | 88 | 38 | 31 | 13 | 6 | -58.1% |
| 17 | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC | 85 | 23 | 38 | 19 | 5 | -50.0% |
| 18 | AGC Inc. | 78 | 10 | 19 | 37 | 12 | +94.7% |
| 19 | FUJIFILM CORPORATION | 71 | 26 | 24 | 17 | 4 | -29.2% |
| 20 | InnoLux Corporation | 60 | 20 | 23 | 14 | 3 | -39.1% |
| 21 | Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | 58 | 14 | 25 | 12 | 7 | -52.0% |
| 22 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 56 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 9 | +35.7% |
| 23 | STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS | 56 | 26 | 21 | 8 | 1 | -61.9% |
| 24 | Artilux, Inc. | 55 | 25 | 16 | 12 | 2 | -25.0% |
| 25 | PixArt Imaging Inc. | 55 | 21 | 20 | 11 | 3 | -45.0% |