Where does Owlstone Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Owlstone Inc. ranks #21,575 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 Owlstone Inc. hold?

Owlstone Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Owlstone Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Owlstone Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.7 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%).

What technology areas does Owlstone Inc. focus on?

Owlstone Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 13 patents, ranking #1,156 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Owlstone Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Owlstone Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Owlstone Inc.'s patents?

Owlstone Inc.'s patents average 25.2 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 Owlstone 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

Owlstone Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 9 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, Owlstone ranks #21,575 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#21,575
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 25.2
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21575 · US Corporation #21,575 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,575/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Orbital Insight
CPC-NARROW G01N · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Orbital Insight, 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.

How Owlstone’s 54.7 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 9.1 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 10.6 pts (19%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Owlstone · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Owlstone's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Owlstone?

Each dot is one of Owlstone’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). Owlstone’s own 25.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Owlstone's grants concentrate

Owlstone Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Owlstone sits between Orbital Insight, Inc. and Paloma Co., Ltd..

Owlstone's three-year grant acceleration

Owlstone Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Orbital Insight

13
Oree Advanced Ill…

13
Ortho Solutions LC

13
Ottopia

13
Oxefit

13
P V Flood Control

13
Paha Designs

13
Paloma

13
Owlstone ◀

13

What this shows Owlstone holds 13 patents at rank #21,572, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Owlstone

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,572 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Owlstone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 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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Owlstone Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.7%
2016	3	23.1%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	5	38.5%
2023	1	7.7%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Owlstone Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 13

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 7

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

B01D - Separation 1

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 1

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 1

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Owlstone Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Owlstone Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #21,575 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Owlstone Inc. against Orbital Insight, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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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