Where does Foret Plasma Labs, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Foret Plasma Labs, LLC ranks #7,841 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 Foret Plasma Labs, LLC hold?

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's Innovation Score?

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.0 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's recent grant velocity is -95% 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 Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's patents?

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's patents average 25.9 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 Foret Plasma Labs, 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

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Foret Plasma Labs, LLC focus on?

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's top technology area is H05H (Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams) with 30 patents, ranking #8 of 380 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: H05H (Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Foret ranks #7,841 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 40 technology areas.

#7,841
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.0/100): 25.9
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7841 · US Corporation #7,841 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,841/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ferric
CPC-WIDE H05H · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ferric 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 Foret’s 51.0 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 (25%) Velocity 0.7 pts (1%) Breadth 22.4 pts (44%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China University of… · near

51
Croda International · near

51
Foret Plasma Labs · this assignee

51
National Chung Shan… · near

51
BIOMÉRIEUX · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Foret's Innovation Score is 51.0/100 (top 12% 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 Foret?

Each dot is one of Foret’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). Foret’s own 25.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Foret's grants concentrate

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 73.2% of grants classified under H05H (Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Foret sits between Fine M-tec Co., Ltd and GEM Co., Ltd..

Foret's three-year grant acceleration

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Fine M-tec

41
Formosa Epitaxy I…

41
Fujifilm Toyama C…

41
Ferric

41
Fotonation Cayman

41
GE Oil & Gas ESP

41
GED Integrated So…

41
GEM

41
Foret Plasma Labs ◀

41

What this shows Foret holds 41 patents at rank #7,843, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Foret

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,843 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05H (Plasma Technique)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Foret, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05H (Plasma Technique), Foret ranks #8 of 380 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Croda International PLC 51 China University of Petroleum 51 National Chung Shan Institute OF Science AND Technology 51 BIOMÉRIEUX 51

Foret's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Foret Plasma Labs, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	22.0%
2016	8	19.5%
2017	8	19.5%
2018	6	14.6%
2019	8	19.5%
2020	1	2.4%
2023	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Foret Plasma Labs, LLC patent most?

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 30

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 14

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 12

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 12

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 9

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 8

C10J - Production OF Producer GAS, Water-gas, Synthesis GAS From Solid Carbonaceous Material, OR Mixtures Containing These Gases ; Carburetting AIR OR Other Gases 7

C10B - Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials 7

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 6

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 5

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 5

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 4

Top 15 of 40 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

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Foret Plasma Labs, LLC's lead technology class is H05H (Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams), 73.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05H
Ranked #7,841 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Foret Plasma Labs, LLC against Fine M-tec Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.0/100 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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