Where does Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH ranks #4,960 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 Nussloch GmbH hold?

Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH's Innovation Score?

Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% 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 Nussloch GmbH focus on?

Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 54 patents, ranking #267 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH's recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH's patents?

Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH's patents average 13.0 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 Nussloch GmbH 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 Nussloch GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 22 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, Leica ranks #4,960 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 22 technology areas.

#4,960
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4960 · Foreign Corporation #4,960 · 70 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,960/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Laboratoire…
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Laboratoire Francais du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (±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 57.2 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 14.7 pts (26%) Velocity 18.1 pts (32%) Breadth 16.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AGC Flat Glass… · near

57
Beijing Huamei · near

57
Idexx Laboratories · near

57
Leica Biosystems… · this assignee

57
Mainstream Engineering · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leica's Innovation Score is 57.2/100 (top 5% 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 13.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 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 Nussloch GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 77.1% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Leica sits between Lantiq Beteiligungs-gmbh & Co. KG and Morehouse School OF Medicine.

Leica's three-year grant acceleration

Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Lantiq Beteiligun…

70
Largan Digital

70
Laboratoire Franc…

70
Lehigh University

70
Leica Instruments…

70
Lowe's Companies

70
Lumenis

70
Morehouse School…

70
Leica Biosystems… ◀

70

What this shows Leica holds 70 patents at rank #4,960, 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 #4,960 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 #267 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. 57 Idexx Laboratories Inc. 57 Mainstream Engineering Corporation 57 Beijing Huamei, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH 13.0 avg UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University 13.0 avg Gates Corporation 13.0 avg Aptar Radolfzell GmbH 13.0 avg

Leica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 Nussloch GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	20.0%
2016	8	11.4%
2017	7	10.0%
2018	10	14.3%
2019	6	8.6%
2021	1	1.4%
2022	11	15.7%
2023	7	10.0%
2024	1	1.4%
2025partial year	5	7.1%

Which technologies does Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 54

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 10

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

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

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 1

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

F27M - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects OF THE Charges OR Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts 1

Top 15 of 22 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 Nussloch GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 77.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #4,960 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH against Lantiq Beteiligungs-gmbh & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.2/100 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

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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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