Where does Labcyte Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Labcyte Inc. ranks #7,431 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 Labcyte Inc. hold?

Labcyte Inc. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Labcyte Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Labcyte Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.6 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Labcyte Inc. focus on?

Labcyte Inc.'s top technology area is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE) with 40 patents, ranking #45 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Labcyte Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Labcyte Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Labcyte Inc.'s patents?

Labcyte Inc.'s patents average 24.3 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 Labcyte Inc. 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

Labcyte Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 17 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: B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Labcyte ranks #7,431 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 17 technology areas.

#7,431
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.6/100): 24.3
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7431 · US Corporation #7,431 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,431/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH K-International
CPC-FOCUS B01L · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: K-International, 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 Labcyte’s 47.6 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 13.1 pts (28%) Velocity 5.3 pts (11%) Breadth 14.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 14.6 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mitsubishi Electric… · near

48
Celona · near

48
Hifi Engineering · near

48
Labcyte · this assignee

48
Otsuka Chemical · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Labcyte's Innovation Score is 47.6/100 (top 18% 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 Labcyte?

Each dot is one of Labcyte’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). Labcyte’s own 24.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Labcyte's grants concentrate

Labcyte Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Labcyte sits between K-International, Inc. and Lucomm Technologies, Inc..

Labcyte's three-year grant acceleration

Labcyte Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

K-international

44
Kenwood

44
Kpmg LLP

44
Kulzer

44
Lancium

44
LT Materials

44
Leo Pharma A/S

44
Lucomm

44
Labcyte ◀

44

What this shows Labcyte holds 44 patents at rank #7,431, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Labcyte

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,431 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Labcyte, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), Labcyte ranks #45 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Hifi Engineering Inc. 48 Celona, Inc. 48 Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd. 48 Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited 48

Labcyte's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Labcyte Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.5%
2017	2	4.5%
2018	8	18.2%
2019	1	2.3%
2020	8	18.2%
2021	6	13.6%
2022	2	4.5%
2023	5	11.4%
2024	5	11.4%
2025partial year	5	11.4%

Which technologies does Labcyte Inc. patent most?

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 40

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 22

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 16

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 13

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 6

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 6

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B01D - Separation 2

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 2

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 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Labcyte Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Labcyte Inc.'s lead technology class is B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01L
Ranked #7,431 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Labcyte Inc. against K-International, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.