Where does Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC ranks #7,838 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 Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC hold?

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 30.4 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +41% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC's patents?

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC's patents average 10.4 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 Exact Sciences Development Company, 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

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC focus on?

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC'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 40 patents, ranking #112 of 2,502 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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: 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, Exact ranks #7,838 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 9 technology areas.

#7,838
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.4/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: +41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7838 · US Corporation #7,838 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,838/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Constellation Designs
CPC-NARROW C12Q · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Constellation Designs, LLC (±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 Exact’s 30.4 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 12.9 pts (42%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 10.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
C-Smartlink… · near

30
Exact Sciences… · this assignee

30
Ojai Retinal… · near

30
SugarCRM · near

30
Valentino S p A · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Exact's Innovation Score is 30.4/100 (34th percentile 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 Exact?

Each dot is one of Exact’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). Exact’s own 10.4 claims/patent is at or below the 18.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Exact's grants concentrate

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 97.6% 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 2021 (12 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Exact sits between Constellation Designs, LLC and Ferric Inc..

Exact's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC moved from 29 to 3 grants (0.10x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Constellation Des…

41
Cujo

41
Dupont Teijin Fil…

41
Element Bioscienc…

41
Fine M-tec

41
Formosa Epitaxy I…

41
Fujifilm Toyama C…

41
Ferric

41
Exact Sciences De… ◀

41

What this shows Exact holds 41 patents at rank #7,838, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Exact

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,838 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Exact, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes), Exact ranks #112 of 2,502 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

SugarCRM, Inc. 30 Ojai Retinal Technology, LLC 30 Valentino S.p.A. 30 C-Smartlink Information Technology Co., Ltd. 30

Exact's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	9	22.0%
2019	8	19.5%
2020	9	22.0%
2021	12	29.3%
2022	3	7.3%

Which technologies does Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC 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 40

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

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

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

C07K - Peptides 1

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC'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), 97.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12Q
Ranked #7,838 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Exact Sciences Development Company, LLC against Constellation Designs, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.4/100 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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