Where does Li-cor, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Li-cor, Inc. ranks #4,829 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 Li-cor, Inc. hold?

Li-cor, Inc. holds 72 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Li-cor, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Li-cor, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Li-cor, Inc. focus on?

Li-cor, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 55 patents, ranking #258 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

Is Li-cor, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Li-cor, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Li-cor, Inc.'s patents?

Li-cor, Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Li-cor, 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

Li-cor, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 72 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Li-cor ranks #4,829 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 72 patents across 37 technology areas.

#4,829
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4829 · US Corporation #4,829 · 72 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 72 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,829/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ion Beam Applications
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ion Beam Applications (±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 Li-cor’s 50.0 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 14.8 pts (30%) Velocity 2.4 pts (5%) Breadth 21.5 pts (43%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dow Corning Toray · near

50
Li-cor · this assignee

50
Linxens Holding · near

50
Swiss Reinsurance · near

50
Valeo Japan · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Li-cor's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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 Li-cor?

Each dot is one of Li-cor’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). Li-cor’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Li-cor's grants concentrate

Li-cor, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 76.4% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (14 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Li-cor sits between Ion Beam Applications and Refractory Intellectual Property GMBH & Co. KG.

Li-cor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Li-cor, Inc. moved from 25 to 9 grants (0.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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Konica Minolta Bu…

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Lapis Technology

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Panpsy

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Pella

72
Refractory Intell…

72
Li-cor ◀

72

What this shows Li-cor holds 72 patents at rank #4,828, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Li-cor

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,828 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Li-cor's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Li-cor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Li-cor ranks #258 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Valeo Japan Co., Ltd. 50 Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. 50 Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. 50 Linxens Holding 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV 18.8 avg Helsinn Healthcare SA 18.8 avg OpenTV, Inc. 18.8 avg The Governing Council of the University of Toronto 18.8 avg

Li-cor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Li-cor, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	11.1%
2016	9	12.5%
2017	14	19.4%
2018	7	9.7%
2019	10	13.9%
2020	7	9.7%
2021	8	11.1%
2022	4	5.6%
2023	5	6.9%

Which technologies does Li-cor, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 55

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 17

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 14

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 10

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 9

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

C07K - Peptides 6

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 5

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 4

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 4

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 4

Top 15 of 37 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

Li-cor, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Li-cor, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 76.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #4,829 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Li-cor, Inc. against Ion Beam Applications, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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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