Where does Applied Biosystems, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Applied Biosystems, LLC ranks #2,497 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 Applied Biosystems, LLC hold?

Applied Biosystems, LLC holds 156 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Applied Biosystems, LLC's Innovation Score?

Applied Biosystems, LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Applied Biosystems, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Applied Biosystems, LLC's recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Applied Biosystems, LLC's patents?

Applied Biosystems, LLC's patents average 16.1 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 Applied Biosystems, LLC 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

Applied Biosystems, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Applied Biosystems, LLC focus on?

Applied Biosystems, LLC's top technology area is C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes) with 94 patents, ranking #43 of 2,502 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 156 granted patents across 48 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: C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Micr).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Applied ranks #2,497 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 156 patents across 48 technology areas.

#2,497
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2497 · US Corporation #2,497 · 156 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 156 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,497/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Accedian Networks
CPC-WIDE C12Q · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Accedian Networks Inc. (±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 Applied’s 52.9 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 17.5 pts (33%) Velocity 1.3 pts (2%) Breadth 24.5 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (18%)

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United Therapeutics · near

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What this shows Applied's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 Applied?

Each dot is one of Applied’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). Applied’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Applied's grants concentrate

Applied Biosystems, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 60.3% of grants classified under C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Micr). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (36 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Applied sits between WhatsApp LLC and Khalifa University of Science and Technology.

Applied's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Applied Biosystems, LLC moved from 36 to 7 grants (0.19x 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 #3,098. See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Applied holds 156 patents at rank #2,498, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Applied

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,498 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Applied, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes), Applied ranks #43 of 2,502 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd. 53 Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation 53 United Therapeutics Corporation 53 Rochester Institute of Technology 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. 16.1 avg Skorpios Technologies, Inc. 16.1 avg Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. 16.1 avg Linde GmbH 16.1 avg

Applied's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Applied Biosystems, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	23.1%
2016	35	22.4%
2017	27	17.3%
2018	14	9.0%
2019	17	10.9%
2020	14	9.0%
2021	5	3.2%
2022	5	3.2%
2023	1	0.6%
2024	1	0.6%
2025partial year	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Applied Biosystems, LLC patent most?

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 94

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 63

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 49

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 41

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 24

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 21

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 20

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 15

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 10

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 10

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 9

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 9

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 8

F15C - Fluid-circuit Elements Predominantly Used FOR Computing OR Control Purposes 8

C12Y - Enzymes 7

Top 15 of 48 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

Applied Biosystems, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Applied Biosystems, LLC's lead technology class is C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Micr), 60.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12Q
Ranked #2,497 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Applied Biosystems, LLC against WhatsApp LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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