Where does Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings ranks #3,658 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 Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings hold?

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings holds 100 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's Innovation Score?

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's recent grant velocity is +135% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's patents?

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's patents average 19.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings

Q: What technology areas does Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings focus on?

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 62 patents. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings 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 PatentsView assignee record - 100 granted patents across 27 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Laboratory ranks #3,658 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 100 patents across 27 technology areas.

#3,658
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +135%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3658 · US Corporation #3,658 · 100 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 100 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,658/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Forescout
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +135% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Forescout Technologies, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Grammer · near

56
Huntsman International · near

56
Laboratory OF… · this assignee

56
Sivantos Pte · near

56
United Kingdom… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Laboratory's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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.

Where Laboratory's grants concentrate

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 62% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (21 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Laboratory sits between Forescout Technologies, Inc. and Perkins Engines Company Limited.

Laboratory's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings moved from 29 to 43 grants (1.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #469. See the growth leaderboard.

Forescout

100
GE Healthcare

100
Huawei Canada

100
Kingston Digital

100
Litens Automotive…

100
Leap Motion

100
Multidimension Te…

100
Perkins Engines

100
Laboratory OF Ame… ◀

100

What this shows Laboratory holds 100 patents at rank #3,658, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Laboratory

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,658 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Laboratory, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Huntsman International LLC 56 United Kingdom Research and Innovation 56 Grammer AG 56 Sivantos Pte. Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

Optum Services (Ireland) Limited 19.0 avg RED.COM, LLC 19.0 avg THE Trustees OF Princeton University 19.0 avg The Strategic Coach Inc. 19.0 avg

Laboratory's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	5.0%
2016	2	2.0%
2017	5	5.0%
2018	3	3.0%
2019	11	11.0%
2020	12	12.0%
2021	6	6.0%
2022	13	13.0%
2023	9	9.0%
2024	21	21.0%
2025partial year	13	13.0%

Which technologies does Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 62

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 44

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 29

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 12

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 11

C07K - Peptides 10

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 6

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

B04B - Centrifuges 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Top 15 of 27 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,658

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 62% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #3,658 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings against Forescout Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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

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