Where does Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. ranks #9,443 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 Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. hold?

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s Innovation Score?

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. has an Innovation Score of 34.9 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. focus on?

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 24 patents, ranking #571 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s recent grant velocity is -48% 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 Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s patents?

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s patents average 10.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.

Q: How is the Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Beam ranks #9,443 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 15 technology areas.

#9,443
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.9/100): 10.3
avg claims per patent: -48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9443 · US Corporation #9,443 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,443/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Biocytogen Pharmaceu…
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (±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 Beam’s 34.9 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 12.2 pts (35%) Velocity 2.9 pts (8%) Breadth 13.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Active Motif · near

35
Beam Engineering… · this assignee

35
Coorstek KK · near

35
Gyrodata Incorporated · near

35
Softbank Robotics… · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Beam's Innovation Score is 34.9/100 (49th 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 Beam?

Each dot is one of Beam’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). Beam’s own 10.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Beam's grants concentrate

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Beam sits between Bitwave PTE Ltd and Blaize, Inc..

Beam's three-year grant acceleration

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Bitwave PTE

33
BJB & KG

33
Blue Rhino Global…

33
Btsr Internationa…

33
Biomedical Enterp…

33
Biocytogen Pharma…

33
Biolase

33
Blaize

33
Beam Engineering… ◀

33

What this shows Beam holds 33 patents at rank #9,450, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Beam

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,450 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Beam, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Beam ranks #571 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Softbank Robotics Europe 35 Coorstek KK 35 Gyrodata, Incorporated 35 Active Motif, Inc. 35

Beam's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	12.1%
2018	8	24.2%
2019	9	27.3%
2020	3	9.1%
2021	2	6.1%
2022	3	9.1%
2023	1	3.0%
2024	2	6.1%
2025partial year	1	3.0%

Which technologies does Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 24

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 11

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 8

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 8

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 3

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

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 1

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

H04B - Transmission 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #9,443 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. against Bitwave PTE Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.9/100 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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