Where does ION Beam Services rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ION Beam Services ranks #26,601 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 ION Beam Services hold?

ION Beam Services holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is ION Beam Services's Innovation Score?

ION Beam Services has an Innovation Score of 24.4 out of 100 (14th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ION Beam Services focus on?

ION Beam Services's top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 7 patents, ranking #268 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is ION Beam Services's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ION Beam Services's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 ION Beam Services's patents?

ION Beam Services's patents average 10.2 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 ION Beam Services 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 Foreign Corporation

ION Beam Services

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 8 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ION ranks #26,601 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 8 technology areas.

#26,601
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 14th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.4/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26601 · Foreign Corporation #26,601 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,601/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Invisible Sentinel
CPC-NARROW H01J · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Invisible Sentinel, 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 ION’s 24.4 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 8.3 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ION Beam Services · this assignee

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ION's Innovation Score is 24.4/100 (14th 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 ION?

Each dot is one of ION’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). ION’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where ION's grants concentrate

ION Beam Services is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, ION sits between Invisible Sentinel, Inc. and Iqor US Inc..

Invisible Sentinel

10
INX International…

10
Inzer Advance Des…

10
Ioengine

10
Iomet Pharma

10
IP Power Holdings

10
IPC Systems

10
Iqor US

10
ION Beam Services ◀

10

What this shows ION holds 10 patents at rank #26,552, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ION

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,552 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

ION's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 14th percentile higher than 14% 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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ION Beam Services patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	10.0%
2016	2	20.0%
2017	2	20.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2025partial year	1	10.0%

Which technologies does ION Beam Services patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 7

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 5

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 5

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

ION Beam Services's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ION Beam Services's lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #26,601 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ION Beam Services against Invisible Sentinel, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.4/100 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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