Where does Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC ranks #2,211 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 Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC hold?

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC holds 178 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's Innovation Score?

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC has an Innovation Score of 54.1 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's recent grant velocity is +170% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's patents?

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's patents average 16.2 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 Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC 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

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC

Q: What technology areas does Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC focus on?

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's top technology area is 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) with 138 patents, ranking #28 of 2,502 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 178 granted patents across 35 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: 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 Micr).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oxford ranks #2,211 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 178 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,211
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.1/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +170%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2211 · Foreign Corporation #2,211 · 178 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 178 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,211/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH First Solar
CPC-FOCUS C12Q · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +170% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: First Solar, 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 Oxford’s 54.1 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 17.9 pts (33%) Velocity 5.6 pts (10%) Breadth 20.9 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Flowserve Management · near

54
Korea Institute OF… · near

54
Oxford Nanopore · this assignee

54
Seminis Vegetable… · near

54
Sumitomo Osaka Cement · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oxford's Innovation Score is 54.1/100 (top 8% 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 Oxford?

Each dot is one of Oxford’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). Oxford’s own 16.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Oxford's grants concentrate

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 77.5% of grants classified under 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 Micr). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (32 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Oxford sits between First Solar, Inc. and Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc..

Oxford's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC moved from 69 to 58 grants (0.84x 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 #1,685. See the growth leaderboard.

First Solar

178
Guangdong Univers…

178
Korea Research In…

178
Morgan Stanley Se…

178
Rockley Photonics

178
TE Connectivity S…

178
Texas Tech Univer…

178
Topcon Positionin…

178
Oxford Nanopore ◀

178

What this shows Oxford holds 178 patents at rank #2,211, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oxford

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,211 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oxford, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes), Oxford ranks #28 of 2,502 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd. 54 Korea Institute OF Energy Research 54 Flowserve Management Company 54 Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong) 16.2 avg TK Holdings, LLC 16.2 avg S&C Electric Company 16.2 avg Dana Belgium N.V. 16.2 avg

Oxford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.1%
2016	1	0.6%
2017	10	5.6%
2018	8	4.5%
2019	19	10.7%
2020	18	10.1%
2021	32	18.0%
2022	13	7.3%
2023	20	11.2%
2024	25	14.0%
2025partial year	30	16.9%

Which technologies does Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC patent most?

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 138

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 93

C07K - Peptides 39

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 35

C12Y - Enzymes 23

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 23

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 15

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 10

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 9

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 6

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 4

Top 15 of 35 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

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC's lead technology class is 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 Micr), 77.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12Q
Ranked #2,211 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC against First Solar, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.1/100 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.

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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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