Where does Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd ranks #6,357 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 Melbourne PTY Ltd hold?

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd's Innovation Score?

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd has an Innovation Score of 43.8 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd's recent grant velocity is +107% 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 Melbourne PTY Ltd's patents?

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd's patents average 15.2 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 Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd 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

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd focus on?

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 36 patents, ranking #420 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leica ranks #6,357 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 17 technology areas.

#6,357
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +107%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6357 · Foreign Corporation #6,357 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,357/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kaistar Lighting(Xia…
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +107% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kaistar Lighting(Xiamen) Co., Ltd. (±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 43.8 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 13.8 pts (32%) Velocity 6.3 pts (14%) Breadth 14.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aspect Imaging · near

44
Findlay Machine & Tool · near

44
Leica Biosystems… · this assignee

44
Shenzhen Oceanwing… · near

44
Xiamen Baby Pretty… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leica's Innovation Score is 43.8/100 (top 27% 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 15.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Leica's grants concentrate

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 67.9% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Leica sits between Kaistar Lighting(Xiamen) Co., Ltd. and Manitou Italia S.R.L..

Leica's three-year grant acceleration

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Kaistar Lighting(…

53
Kelsey-hayes-

53
Kenney Manufactur…

53
Kaspersky Lab ZAO

53
LMK

53
Lanzatech

53
Lincoln Industrial

53
Manitou Italia S…

53
Leica Biosystems… ◀

53

What this shows Leica holds 53 patents at rank #6,354, 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 #6,354 in granted patent volume.

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

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 G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Leica ranks #420 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Shenzhen Oceanwing Smart Innovations Technology Co., Ltd 44 Findlay Machine & Tool, LLC 44 Aspect Imaging Ltd. 44 Xiamen Baby Pretty Products Co., Ltd. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Toast, Inc. 15.2 avg L&L Candle Company, LLC 15.2 avg Owen Mumford Limited 15.2 avg The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd 15.2 avg

Leica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.7%
2016	3	5.7%
2017	2	3.8%
2018	5	9.4%
2019	2	3.8%
2020	4	7.5%
2021	11	20.8%
2022	4	7.5%
2023	5	9.4%
2024	7	13.2%
2025partial year	7	13.2%

Which technologies does Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 36

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 22

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

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 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

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 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 67.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #6,357 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd against Kaistar Lighting(Xiamen) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.8/100 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.