Where does Beam Therapeutics Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Beam Therapeutics Inc. ranks #23,960 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 Therapeutics Inc. hold?

Beam Therapeutics Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Beam Therapeutics Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Beam Therapeutics Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.3 out of 100 (top 7% 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 Therapeutics Inc. focus on?

Beam Therapeutics Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 9 patents, ranking #2,395 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Beam Therapeutics Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Beam Therapeutics Inc.'s patents?

Beam Therapeutics Inc.'s patents average 24.2 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 Beam Therapeutics 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

Beam Therapeutics Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Beam ranks #23,960 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 12 technology areas.

#23,960
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.3/100): 24.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23960 · US Corporation #23,960 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #23,960/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bartell Machinery…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bartell Machinery Systems, L.L.C. (±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 55.3 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 8.6 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 12.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 14.5 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
X-Celeprint · near

55
Beam Therapeutics · this assignee

55
Crystal Lagoons · near

55
Senju Metal Industry · near

55
Tobii AB · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Beam's Innovation Score is 55.3/100 (top 7% 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 24.2 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.

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

Where Beam's grants concentrate

Beam Therapeutics Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Beam sits between Bartell Machinery Systems, L.L.C. and Behavioral Safety Products, LLC.

Beam's three-year grant acceleration

Beam Therapeutics Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Bartell Machinery…

11
Barton Innovations

11
Battery-biz

11
Bazaarvoice

11
Beatdapp Software

11
Beckley Psytech

11
Bedloe Industries

11
Behavioral Safety…

11
Beam Therapeutics ◀

11

What this shows Beam holds 11 patents at rank #23,995, 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 #23,995 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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 A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Beam ranks #2,395 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Crystal Lagoons Technologies, Inc. 55 Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd. 55 Tobii AB 55 X-Celeprint Limited 55

Beam's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Beam Therapeutics Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	2	18.2%
2024	4	36.4%
2025partial year	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Beam Therapeutics Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 8

C07K - Peptides 7

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 7

C12Y - Enzymes 6

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

C07J - Steroids 1

Top 12 of 12 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 Therapeutics Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Beam Therapeutics Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #23,960 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Beam Therapeutics Inc. against Bartell Machinery Systems, L.L.C., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.3/100 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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