Where does Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. ranks #8,343 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 Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. hold?

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.4 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. focus on?

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 24 patents, ranking #618 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -81% 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 Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.'s patents?

Caliper Life Sciences, 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 Caliper Life Sciences, 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

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Caliper ranks #8,343 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 23 technology areas.

#8,343
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.4/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8343 · US Corporation #8,343 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,343/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CardinalCommerce
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CardinalCommerce Corporation (±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 Caliper’s 40.4 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 12.7 pts (31%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 17.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BeBop Sensors · near

40
Caliper Life Sciences · this assignee

40
Endra Life Sciences · near

40
Marine Canada… · near

40
Taiwan Union… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Caliper's Innovation Score is 40.4/100 (top 36% 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 Caliper?

Each dot is one of Caliper’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). Caliper’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Caliper's grants concentrate

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 63.2% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Caliper sits between China University OF Geosciences (BEIJING) and Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG.

Caliper's three-year grant acceleration

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

China University…

38
Citigroup Technol…

38
Cloudminds (Shenz…

38
Cyclingdeal USA

38
Cardinalcommerce

38
Carl Zeiss SMS

38
Caterpillar Energ…

38
Caterpillar Motor…

38
Caliper Life Scie… ◀

38

What this shows Caliper holds 38 patents at rank #8,349, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Caliper

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,349 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Caliper, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Caliper ranks #618 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Endra Life Sciences Inc. 40 Taiwan Union Technology Corporation 40 Marine Canada Acquisition Inc. 40 BeBop Sensors, Inc. 40

Caliper's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	28.9%
2016	8	21.1%
2017	7	18.4%
2018	5	13.2%
2019	1	2.6%
2020	3	7.9%
2021	2	5.3%
2022	1	2.6%

Which technologies does Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 24

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 23

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 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

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 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

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

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 3

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

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

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 3

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

Top 15 of 23 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

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 63.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #8,343 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. against China University OF Geosciences (BEIJING), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.