Where does Fluidigm Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fluidigm Corporation ranks #4,943 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 Fluidigm Corporation hold?

Fluidigm Corporation holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Fluidigm Corporation's Innovation Score?

Fluidigm Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.2 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fluidigm Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fluidigm Corporation's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Fluidigm Corporation's patents?

Fluidigm Corporation's patents average 19.5 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 Fluidigm Corporation 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

Fluidigm Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Fluidigm Corporation focus on?

Fluidigm Corporation'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 46 patents, ranking #103 of 2,502 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Fluidigm ranks #4,943 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 33 technology areas.

#4,943
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.2/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4943 · US Corporation #4,943 · 70 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,943/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ColdQuanta
CPC-FOCUS C12Q · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ColdQuanta, 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 Fluidigm’s 48.2 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 14.7 pts (31%) Velocity 1.4 pts (3%) Breadth 20.3 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gachon University… · near

48
Fluidigm · this assignee

48
Hanchett Entry Systems · near

48
Radiant Innovation · near

48
Vuno · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fluidigm's Innovation Score is 48.2/100 (top 17% 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 Fluidigm?

Each dot is one of Fluidigm’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). Fluidigm’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fluidigm's grants concentrate

Fluidigm Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 65.7% 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 2016 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Fluidigm sits between ColdQuanta, Inc. and GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd..

Fluidigm's three-year grant acceleration

Fluidigm Corporation shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Coldquanta

70
Conviva

70
Eads Deutschland

70
Everi Payments

70
Fujifilm Dimatix

70
Florida Turbine

70
Fungible

70
GD Midea Heating…

70
Fluidigm ◀

70

What this shows Fluidigm holds 70 patents at rank #4,942, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fluidigm

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,942 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fluidigm, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes), Fluidigm ranks #103 of 2,502 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Hanchett Entry Systems, Inc. 48 Radiant Innovation Inc. 48 Vuno Inc. 48 Gachon University of Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Thales Canada Inc. 19.5 avg SanDisk 3D LLC 19.5 avg Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 19.5 avg People.ai, Inc. 19.5 avg

Fluidigm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Fluidigm Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	21.4%
2016	16	22.9%
2017	14	20.0%
2018	8	11.4%
2019	9	12.9%
2020	2	2.9%
2021	3	4.3%
2023	1	1.4%
2024	2	2.9%

Which technologies does Fluidigm Corporation 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 46

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 41

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 36

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 10

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 6

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

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 4

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 4

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 4

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 2

Top 15 of 33 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

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

Fluidigm Corporation'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), 65.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12Q
Ranked #4,943 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fluidigm Corporation against ColdQuanta, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.2/100 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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