Where does CYTONOME/ST, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CYTONOME/ST, LLC ranks #5,660 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 CYTONOME/ST, LLC hold?

CYTONOME/ST, LLC holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is CYTONOME/ST, LLC's Innovation Score?

CYTONOME/ST, LLC has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CYTONOME/ST, LLC focus on?

CYTONOME/ST, LLC's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 49 patents, ranking #297 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is CYTONOME/ST, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CYTONOME/ST, LLC's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 CYTONOME/ST, LLC's patents?

CYTONOME/ST, LLC's patents average 18.9 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 CYTONOME/ST, 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

CYTONOME/ST, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 19 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, Cytonome/st ranks #5,660 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 19 technology areas.

#5,660
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5660 · US Corporation #5,660 · 60 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,660/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Blackmagic Design Pty
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Blackmagic Design Pty 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 Cytonome/st’s 44.4 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 14.2 pts (32%) Velocity 3.5 pts (8%) Breadth 15.4 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CYTONOME/ST · this assignee

44
Nanolumens Acquisition · near

44
Pivotal Commware · near

44
Taris Biomedical · near

44
Tokyo Metropolitan… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cytonome/st's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 Cytonome/st?

Each dot is one of Cytonome/st’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). Cytonome/st’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cytonome/st's grants concentrate

CYTONOME/ST, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 81.7% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Cytonome/st sits between Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG and Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd.

Cytonome/st's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, CYTONOME/ST, LLC moved from 23 to 12 grants (0.52x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Buerkert Werke &…

60
Blackmagic Design…

60
Breathe

60
Cytokinetics

60
Caraway Home

60
Chelsea Building…

60
Curiouser Products

60
Cyara Solutions P…

60
Cytonome/ST ◀

60

What this shows CYTONOME/ST holds 60 patents at rank #5,655, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CYTONOME/ST

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,655 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in CYTONOME/ST's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CYTONOME/ST, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), CYTONOME/ST ranks #297 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Taris Biomedical LLC 44 Pivotal Commware, Inc. 44 Tokyo Metropolitan University 44 Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Designs for Vision, Inc. 18.9 avg Procept BioRobotics Corporation 18.9 avg AST & Science, LLC 18.9 avg Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 18.9 avg

Cytonome/st's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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CYTONOME/ST, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	6.7%
2016	6	10.0%
2017	6	10.0%
2018	7	11.7%
2019	11	18.3%
2020	8	13.3%
2021	4	6.7%
2022	3	5.0%
2023	3	5.0%
2024	6	10.0%
2025partial year	2	3.3%

Which technologies does CYTONOME/ST, LLC patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 49

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 31

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 17

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 12

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 8

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 5

F15C - Fluid-circuit Elements Predominantly Used FOR Computing OR Control Purposes 5

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 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

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

Top 15 of 19 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

CYTONOME/ST, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CYTONOME/ST, LLC's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 81.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #5,660 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CYTONOME/ST, LLC against Buerkert Werke Gmbh & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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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