Where does Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. ranks #3,534 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 Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. hold?

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. focus on?

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 59 patents, ranking #259 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s patents?

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s patents average 17.0 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.

How is the Leica Biosystems Imaging, 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

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 26 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leica ranks #3,534 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 26 technology areas.

#3,534
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3534 · US Corporation #3,534 · 104 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,534/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DePuy Mitek
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DePuy Mitek, LLC (±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 Leica’s 51.4 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 16.1 pts (31%) Velocity 7.1 pts (14%) Breadth 18.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Enkris Semiconductor · near

51
Leica Biosystems… · this assignee

51
Xylo · near

51
Inventec Appliances · near

51
National University… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leica's Innovation Score is 51.4/100 (top 11% 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 Leica?

Each dot is one of Leica’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). Leica’s own 17.0 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.

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

Where Leica's grants concentrate

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 56.7% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (18 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Leica sits between DePuy Mitek, LLC and Peloton Interactive, Inc..

Leica's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. moved from 33 to 35 grants (1.06x 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 #1,032. See the growth leaderboard.

Depuy Mitek

104
Dow Corning Toray

104
ETH ZÜRICH (Eidge…

104
Gigamon

104
Lightlab Imaging

104
Malikie Innovatio…

104
Nippon Soken

104
Peloton Interacti…

104
Leica Biosystems… ◀

104

What this shows Leica holds 104 patents at rank #3,534, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leica

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,534 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Leica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Leica ranks #259 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Enkris Semiconductor, Inc. 51 Xylo Technologies AG 51 Inventec Appliances Corp. 51 National University of Ireland, Galway 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. 17.0 avg Optis Wireless Technology, LLC 17.0 avg Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC 17.0 avg Genomatica, Inc. 17.0 avg

Leica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	8.7%
2016	10	9.6%
2017	7	6.7%
2018	2	1.9%
2019	8	7.7%
2020	15	14.4%
2021	10	9.6%
2022	18	17.3%
2023	8	7.7%
2024	9	8.7%
2025partial year	8	7.7%

Which technologies does Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 59

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 33

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 32

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 30

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 22

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 20

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

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 5

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

Top 15 of 26 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

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 56.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #3,534 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. against DePuy Mitek, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.4/100 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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