Where does Elemental Scientific, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Elemental Scientific, Inc. ranks #2,455 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 Elemental Scientific, Inc. hold?

Elemental Scientific, Inc. holds 159 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Elemental Scientific, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Elemental Scientific, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.1 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Elemental Scientific, Inc. focus on?

Elemental Scientific, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 132 patents, ranking #99 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

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

Elemental Scientific, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +90% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Elemental Scientific, Inc.'s patents?

Elemental Scientific, Inc.'s patents average 15.3 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 Elemental Scientific, 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

Elemental Scientific, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 159 granted patents across 32 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, Elemental ranks #2,455 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 159 patents across 32 technology areas.

#2,455
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2455 · US Corporation #2,455 · 159 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 159 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,455/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AtriCure
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AtriCure, Inc. (±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 Elemental’s 53.1 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 17.5 pts (33%) Velocity 6.3 pts (12%) Breadth 20.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dresser-rand · near

53
Elemental Scientific · this assignee

53
ITT Italia S r l · near

53
Korea University OF… · near

53
Yeti Coolers · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Elemental's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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 Elemental?

Each dot is one of Elemental’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). Elemental’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Elemental's grants concentrate

Elemental Scientific, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 83% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (25 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2015. By volume, Elemental sits between Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG and LG Household & Health Care Ltd..

Elemental's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Elemental Scientific, Inc. moved from 61 to 58 grants (0.95x 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 #1,315. See the growth leaderboard.

Trumpf Werkzeugma…

160
Valentino S p A

160
Veoneer US

160
Atricure

159
Fasteners for Ret…

159
Insulet

159
Keter Plastic

159
LG Household & He…

159
Elemental Scienti… ◀

159

What this shows Elemental holds 159 patents at rank #2,455, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Elemental

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,455 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Elemental, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Elemental ranks #99 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Dresser-rand Company 53 Yeti Coolers, LLC 53 ITT Italia S.r.l. 53 Korea University OF Technology AND Education Industry-university Cooperation Foundation 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur 15.3 avg Briggs & Stratton, LLC 15.3 avg Contemporary Amperex Technology (HONG KONG) Limited 15.3 avg Labrador Diagnostics LLC 15.3 avg

Elemental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Elemental Scientific, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	4.4%
2016	7	4.4%
2017	10	6.3%
2018	8	5.0%
2019	20	12.6%
2020	18	11.3%
2021	23	14.5%
2022	25	15.7%
2023	14	8.8%
2024	19	11.9%
2025partial year	8	5.0%

Which technologies does Elemental Scientific, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 132

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 86

B01D - Separation 17

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 14

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 11

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 9

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 8

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 7

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 6

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 5

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 5

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

Top 15 of 32 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

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

Elemental Scientific, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 83% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #2,455 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Elemental Scientific, Inc. against Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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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