Where does Bio-Rad Europe GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bio-Rad Europe GmbH ranks #11,573 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 Bio-Rad Europe GmbH hold?

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's Innovation Score?

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH has an Innovation Score of 44.0 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bio-Rad Europe GmbH focus on?

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 22 patents, ranking #690 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's recent grant velocity is +280% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's patents?

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's patents average 13.1 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 Bio-Rad Europe GmbH 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 Foreign Corporation

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bio-rad ranks #11,573 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 12 technology areas.

#11,573
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (44.0/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: +280%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11573 · Foreign Corporation #11,573 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,573/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bard Shannon
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +280% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bard Shannon 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.

How Bio-rad’s 44.0 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 11.4 pts (26%) Velocity 12.5 pts (28%) Breadth 12.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bio-Rad Europe · this assignee

44
Daktronics · near

44
Innovative Timing… · near

44
Key Technology · near

44
Power Design · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bio-rad's Innovation Score is 44.0/100 (top 27% 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 Bio-rad?

Each dot is one of Bio-rad’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). Bio-rad’s own 13.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bio-rad's grants concentrate

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 84.6% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Bio-rad sits between Bullfrog International, LC and Brilliant Home Technology, Inc..

Bio-rad's three-year grant acceleration

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Bullfrog Internat…

26
Bard Shannon

26
Baumueller Nuernb…

26
Belden

26
Biosig

26
Bock 1 & KG

26
Braze

26
Brilliant Home Te…

26
Bio-rad Europe ◀

26

What this shows Bio-Rad holds 26 patents at rank #11,579, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bio-Rad

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,579 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Bio-Rad's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bio-Rad, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Bio-Rad ranks #690 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Daktronics, Inc. 44 Electronic Power Design, Inc. 44 Innovative Timing Systems, LLC 44 Key Technology, Inc. 44

Bio-rad's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bio-Rad Europe GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	3.8%
2019	4	15.4%
2020	2	7.7%
2021	2	7.7%
2022	5	19.2%
2023	2	7.7%
2024	8	30.8%
2025partial year	2	7.7%

Which technologies does Bio-Rad Europe GmbH patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 22

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 7

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 6

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

C07K - Peptides 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

C12Y - Enzymes 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bio-Rad Europe GmbH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 84.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #11,573 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bio-Rad Europe GmbH against Bullfrog International, LC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.0/100 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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