Where does Cepheid rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cepheid ranks #3,368 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 Cepheid hold?

Cepheid holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Cepheid's Innovation Score?

Cepheid has an Innovation Score of 56.5 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%).

Is Cepheid's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cepheid's recent grant velocity is +65% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cepheid's patents?

Cepheid's patents average 19.1 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 Cepheid 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

Cepheid

Q: What technology areas does Cepheid focus on?

Cepheid's top technology area is 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) with 55 patents, ranking #88 of 2,502 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 35 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: 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 Micr).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cepheid ranks #3,368 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 35 technology areas.

#3,368
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3368 · US Corporation #3,368 · 110 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,368/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Albert-Ludwigs-Unive…
CPC-FOCUS C12Q · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (±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 Cepheid’s 56.5 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 16.3 pts (29%) Velocity 7.9 pts (14%) Breadth 20.9 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
THE Hillman Group · near

57
Cepheid · this assignee

57
Futaijing Precision… · near

57
Galvani Bioelectronics · near

57
State Grid of China · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cepheid's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (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 Cepheid?

Each dot is one of Cepheid’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). Cepheid’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cepheid's grants concentrate

Cepheid is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under 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 Micr). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (15 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2015. By volume, Cepheid sits between Vornado Air, LLC and Flowserve Management Company.

Cepheid's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cepheid moved from 33 to 39 grants (1.18x 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 #813. See the growth leaderboard.

Vornado Air

111
Albert-ludwigs-un…

110
Boston Scientific

110
Centre Hospitalie…

110
Educational Testi…

110
Enza Zaden Beheer…

110
Experian Informat…

110
Flowserve Managem…

110
Cepheid ◀

110

What this shows Cepheid holds 110 patents at rank #3,368, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cepheid

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,368 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cepheid, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes), Cepheid ranks #88 of 2,502 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

State Grid Corporation of China 57 Galvani Bioelectronics Limited 57 Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co., Ltd. 57 THE Hillman Group, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Biomet 3i, LLC 19.1 avg Dialog Semiconductor B.V. 19.1 avg Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc. 19.1 avg UnitedHealth Group Incorporated 19.1 avg

Cepheid'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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Cepheid patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	4.5%
2016	8	7.3%
2017	7	6.4%
2018	6	5.5%
2019	11	10.0%
2020	10	9.1%
2021	12	10.9%
2022	12	10.9%
2023	12	10.9%
2024	15	13.6%
2025partial year	12	10.9%

Which technologies does Cepheid patent most?

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 55

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 44

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 26

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 23

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

C12Y - Enzymes 9

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 8

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 4

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 4

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

Top 15 of 35 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

Cepheid's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cepheid's lead technology class is 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 Micr), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12Q
Ranked #3,368 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cepheid against Vornado Air, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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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