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Advanced Optical Sensor Components

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.

9,285 US filings from 1,998 companies since 2023 · 2023: 2,649 · 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.	364	127	140	71	26	-49.3%
2	Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation	301	90	143	55	13	-61.5%
3	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.	228	53	90	66	19	-26.7%
4	CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA	211	72	78	49	12	-37.2%
5	VIAVI Solutions Inc.	164	43	56	48	17	-14.3%
6	HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.	159	54	56	41	8	-26.8%
7	Apple Inc.	136	38	49	38	11	-22.4%
8	LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.	128	34	40	38	16	-5.0%
9	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.	113	33	36	39	5	+8.3%
10	GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.	103	31	32	26	14	-18.8%
11	INTEL CORPORATION	96	16	28	40	12	+42.9%
12	Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.	92	21	35	29	7	-17.1%
13	Japan Display Inc.	91	36	32	21	2	-34.4%
14	BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.	84	21	45	15	3	-66.7%
15	TDK CORPORATION	84	20	25	29	10	+16.0%
16	RAYTHEON COMPANY	83	33	31	13	6	-58.1%
17	SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC	83	21	38	19	5	-50.0%
18	AGC Inc.	76	8	19	37	12	+94.7%
19	FUJIFILM CORPORATION	69	24	24	17	4	-29.2%
20	InnoLux Corporation	58	18	23	14	3	-39.1%
21	Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.	56	12	25	12	7	-52.0%
22	Applied Materials, Inc.	53	11	14	19	9	+35.7%
23	COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES	51	12	25	13	1	-48.0%
24	PixArt Imaging Inc.	51	17	20	11	3	-45.0%
25	STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS	51	21	21	8	1	-61.9%