Where does Biofire Defense, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Biofire Defense, LLC ranks #9,719 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 Biofire Defense, LLC hold?

Biofire Defense, LLC holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Biofire Defense, LLC's Innovation Score?

Biofire Defense, LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.4 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Biofire Defense, LLC focus on?

Biofire Defense, LLC's top technology area is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE) with 25 patents, ranking #71 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Biofire Defense, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Biofire Defense, LLC's recent grant velocity is +188% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Biofire Defense, LLC's patents?

Biofire Defense, LLC's patents average 16.6 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 Biofire Defense, LLC 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

Biofire Defense, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Biofire ranks #9,719 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 16 technology areas.

#9,719
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +188%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9719 · US Corporation #9,719 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,719/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Pico…
CPC-FOCUS B01L · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +188% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Pico Technology 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 Biofire’s 52.4 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 12.1 pts (23%) Velocity 16.2 pts (31%) Breadth 14.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Imertech SAS · near

52
Tatsumi Ryoki · near

52
Biofire Defense · this assignee

52
National University… · near

52
Board OF Trustees… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Biofire's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (top 10% 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 Biofire?

Each dot is one of Biofire’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). Biofire’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Biofire's grants concentrate

Biofire Defense, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 78.1% of grants classified under B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Biofire sits between Beijing Pico Technology Co., Ltd. and China Automotive Technology AND Research Center Co., Ltd.

Biofire's three-year grant acceleration

Biofire Defense, LLC shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Beijing Pico Tech…

32
Beijing Tusen Wei…

32
Bently Nevada

32
Biontech

32
Board of Supervis…

32
CBF Networks

32
CEM

32
China Automotive…

32
Biofire Defense ◀

32

What this shows Biofire holds 32 patents at rank #9,726, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Biofire

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,726 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Biofire, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), Biofire ranks #71 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University 52 Tatsumi Ryoki Co., Ltd 52 Imertech SAS 52 Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Illinois 52

Biofire's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Biofire Defense, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	6.3%
2017	5	15.6%
2019	1	3.1%
2020	4	12.5%
2021	2	6.3%
2022	9	28.1%
2023	3	9.4%
2024	5	15.6%
2025partial year	1	3.1%

Which technologies does Biofire Defense, LLC patent most?

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 25

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 23

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

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 8

B04B - Centrifuges 7

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 4

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Biofire Defense, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Biofire Defense, LLC's lead technology class is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), 78.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01L
Ranked #9,719 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Biofire Defense, LLC against Beijing Pico Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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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