Where does Biomerieux, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Biomerieux, Inc. ranks #1,617 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 Biomerieux, Inc. hold?

Biomerieux, Inc. holds 255 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Biomerieux, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Biomerieux, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Biomerieux, Inc. focus on?

Biomerieux, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 177 patents, ranking #70 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

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

Biomerieux, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Biomerieux, Inc.'s patents?

Biomerieux, Inc.'s patents average 16.2 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 Biomerieux, 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

Biomerieux, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 255 granted patents across 60 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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, Biomerieux ranks #1,617 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 255 patents across 60 technology areas.

#1,617
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1617 · US Corporation #1,617 · 255 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 255 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,617/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Givaudan
CPC-WIDE G01N · 60 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Givaudan SA (±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 Biomerieux’s 56.9 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 19.2 pts (34%) Velocity 3.0 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biomerieux · this assignee

57
Cheng UEI Precision… · near

57
Technological… · near

57
The Administrators… · near

57
Ningbo Sunny Opotech · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Biomerieux's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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 Biomerieux?

Each dot is one of Biomerieux’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). Biomerieux’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Biomerieux's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Biomerieux, Inc. received 106 grants versus 142 in 2015–2019 (-25% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 41 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 9. Lead class G01N accounts for 69.4% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kitty Hawk Corporation (#1,613) and Nanjing University (#1,621).

Biomerieux's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Biomerieux, Inc. moved from 100 to 45 grants (0.45x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,793. See the growth leaderboard.

Kitty Hawk

256
Nexans

256
SEB

256
Stmicroelectronic…

256
Givaudan

255
Memjet Technology

255
Merit Medical Sys…

255
Nanjing University

255
Biomerieux ◀

255

What this shows Biomerieux holds 255 patents at rank #1,617, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Biomerieux

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,617 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Biomerieux, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Biomerieux ranks #70 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Cheng UEI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 57 The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund 57 Technological Resources PTY Limited 57 Ningbo Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Koninklijke KPN N.V. 16.2 avg Abiomed, Inc. 16.2 avg M-I L.L.C. 16.2 avg Meso Scale Technologies, LLC. 16.2 avg

Biomerieux's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Biomerieux, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	5.1%
2016	26	10.2%
2017	23	9.0%
2018	41	16.1%
2019	39	15.3%
2020	35	13.7%
2021	26	10.2%
2022	25	9.8%
2023	11	4.3%
2024	9	3.5%
2025partial year	7	2.7%

Which technologies does Biomerieux, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 177

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 118

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 59

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 52

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 19

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 18

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 12

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 11

C07K - Peptides 10

B04B - Centrifuges 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 7

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

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 6

Top 15 of 60 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

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

Biomerieux, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 69.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #1,617 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Biomerieux, Inc. against Kitty Hawk Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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