Where does Berkeley Lights, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Berkeley Lights, Inc. ranks #4,706 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 Berkeley Lights, Inc. hold?

Berkeley Lights, Inc. holds 74 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Berkeley Lights, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.7 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Berkeley Lights, Inc. focus on?

Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s top technology area is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE) with 56 patents, ranking #23 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +152% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s patents?

Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s patents average 24.7 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 Berkeley Lights, 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

Berkeley Lights, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 74 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Berkeley ranks #4,706 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 74 patents across 24 technology areas.

#4,706
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.7/100): 24.7
avg claims per patent: +152%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4706 · US Corporation #4,706 · 74 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 74 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,706/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Allen Medical Systems
CPC-FOCUS B01L · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +152% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Allen Medical Systems, 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 Berkeley’s 51.7 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 14.9 pts (29%) Velocity 4.6 pts (9%) Breadth 17.3 pts (34%) Claim depth 14.8 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aleddra · near

52
Berkeley Lights · this assignee

52
Bobst MEX · near

52
IPS Group · near

52
The John Hopkins… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Berkeley's Innovation Score is 51.7/100 (top 11% 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 Berkeley?

Each dot is one of Berkeley’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). Berkeley’s own 24.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Berkeley's grants concentrate

Berkeley Lights, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 75.7% of grants classified under B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Berkeley sits between Allen Medical Systems, Inc. and EOS Products, LLC.

Berkeley's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Berkeley Lights, Inc. moved from 36 to 25 grants (0.69x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Allen Medical Sys…

74
Alstom Renewable

74
Ayar Labs

74
Banner Engineering

74
Brembo S p A

74
Brose Fahrzeugtei…

74
Ceremorphic

74
EOS Products

74
Berkeley Lights ◀

74

What this shows Berkeley holds 74 patents at rank #4,706, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Berkeley

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,706 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Berkeley, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), Berkeley ranks #23 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Aleddra Inc. 52 IPS Group Inc. 52 Bobst MEX SA 52 The John Hopkins University 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.7 here).

AOB Products Company 24.7 avg Synchrony Bank 24.7 avg Medivation Technologies LLC 24.8 avg Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. 24.8 avg

Berkeley's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Berkeley Lights, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.4%
2017	4	5.4%
2018	8	10.8%
2019	8	10.8%
2020	17	23.0%
2021	11	14.9%
2022	13	17.6%
2023	11	14.9%
2024	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Berkeley Lights, Inc. patent most?

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 56

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 40

B03C - Magnetic OR Electrostatic Separation OF Solid Materials From Solid Materials OR FLUIDS; Separation BY High-voltage Electric Fields 23

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 19

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 4

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 4

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 3

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 3

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

C07K - Peptides 2

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Berkeley Lights, Inc.'s lead technology class is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), 75.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01L
Ranked #4,706 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Berkeley Lights, Inc. against Allen Medical Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.7/100 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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