Where does Heliae Development, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heliae Development, LLC ranks #5,677 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 Heliae Development, LLC hold?

Heliae Development, LLC holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Heliae Development, LLC's Innovation Score?

Heliae Development, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.3 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 Heliae Development, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heliae Development, LLC's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Heliae Development, LLC's patents?

Heliae Development, LLC's patents average 18.7 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 Heliae Development, 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

Heliae Development, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Heliae Development, LLC focus on?

Heliae Development, LLC's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 33 patents, ranking #322 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heliae ranks #5,677 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 32 technology areas.

#5,677
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5677 · US Corporation #5,677 · 60 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,677/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Generac Power Systems
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Generac Power Systems, 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 Heliae’s 48.3 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 (29%) Velocity 2.9 pts (6%) Breadth 20.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Heliae Development · this assignee

48
Orionis Biosciences · near

48
BruMate · near

48
Faurecia Autositze · near

48
Kwang Yang Motor · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heliae's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (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 Heliae?

Each dot is one of Heliae’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). Heliae’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Heliae's grants concentrate

Heliae Development, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 55% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Heliae sits between Generac Power Systems, Inc. and Hyperfine Operations, Inc..

Heliae's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Heliae Development, LLC moved from 23 to 10 grants (0.43x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Generac Power Sys…

60
Great Lakes Neuro…

60
Hankook Tire & Te…

60
HBI Branded Appar…

60
Hoist Fitness Sys…

60
Hyperloop

60
Hangzhou H3C

60
Hyperfine Operati…

60
Heliae Development ◀

60

What this shows Heliae holds 60 patents at rank #5,675, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heliae

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,675 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heliae, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Heliae ranks #322 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Orionis Biosciences, Inc 48 Faurecia Autositze GmbH 48 BruMate, Inc. 48 Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Roche Diagnostics International AG 18.7 avg FormFactor, Inc. 18.7 avg DP Technologies, Inc. 18.7 avg Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd. 18.7 avg

Heliae'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Heliae Development, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	10.0%
2016	10	16.7%
2017	1	1.7%
2018	7	11.7%
2019	6	10.0%
2020	9	15.0%
2021	8	13.3%
2022	6	10.0%
2023	4	6.7%
2025partial year	3	5.0%

Which technologies does Heliae Development, LLC patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 33

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 29

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 19

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 10

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 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 7

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 6

C05F - Organic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05c, e.g. Fertilisers From Waste OR Refuse 6

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 6

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 5

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 5

A23K - Fodder 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

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

Heliae Development, LLC's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 55% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #5,677 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heliae Development, LLC against Generac Power Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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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