Where does Bacterioscan Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bacterioscan Inc. ranks #22,239 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Bacterioscan Inc. hold?

Bacterioscan Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Bacterioscan Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bacterioscan Inc. has an Innovation Score of 27.8 out of 100 (top 75% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bacterioscan Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bacterioscan Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Bacterioscan Inc.'s patents?

Bacterioscan Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Bacterioscan 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

Bacterioscan Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bacterioscan Inc. focus on?

Bacterioscan Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bacterioscan ranks #22,239 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 5 technology areas.

#22,239
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 75%
by Innovation Score (27.8/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22239 · US Corporation #22,239 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,239/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Bailey Metal Products
CPC-NARROW G01N · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bailey Metal Products Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bacterioscan · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Bacterioscan's Innovation Score is 27.8/100 (top 75% 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.

Where Bacterioscan's grants concentrate

Bacterioscan Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under G01N (INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Bacterioscan sits between BS Systems Gmbh & Co. KG and Barkbox, Inc..

BS Systems & KG

12
BT Imaging Pty

12
Bunge Amorphic So…

12
BWXT Canada

12
Bailey Metal Prod…

12
Banco Bradesco S/A

12
Bank of Canada

12
Barkbox

12
Bacterioscan ◀

12

What this shows Bacterioscan holds 12 patents at rank #22,278, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bacterioscan

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,278 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Bacterioscan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 75% higher than 25% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bacterioscan Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	8.3%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	5	41.7%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	2	16.7%
2021	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Bacterioscan Inc. patent most?

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 11

B01L - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 9

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 5

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 1

E21B - EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,239

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

27.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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