Where does Particles Plus, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Particles Plus, Inc. ranks #12,611 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 Particles Plus, Inc. hold?

Particles Plus, Inc. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Particles Plus, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Particles Plus, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.8 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Particles Plus, Inc. focus on?

Particles Plus, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 22 patents, ranking #690 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Particles Plus, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Particles Plus, 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 Particles Plus, Inc.'s patents?

Particles Plus, Inc.'s patents average 18.5 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 Particles Plus, 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

Particles Plus, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 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, Particles ranks #12,611 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 9 technology areas.

#12,611
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12611 · US Corporation #12,611 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,611/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH PagerDuty
CPC-NARROW G01N · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: PagerDuty, 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 Particles’s 42.8 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 11.1 pts (26%) Velocity 10.0 pts (23%) Breadth 10.6 pts (25%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Particles Plus · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Particles's Innovation Score is 42.8/100 (top 30% 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 Particles?

Each dot is one of Particles’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). Particles’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Particles's grants concentrate

Particles Plus, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Particles sits between Proximagen, LLC and Perceptive Automata, Inc..

Particles's three-year grant acceleration

Particles Plus, Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Proximagen

24
Pulse

24
Pagerduty

24
Paradigm Spine

24
Pegasystems

24
Penn Engineering…

24
Pentel

24
Perceptive Automa…

24
Particles Plus ◀

24

What this shows Particles holds 24 patents at rank #12,624, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Particles

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,624 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Particles's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Particles Plus, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	20.8%
2017	1	4.2%
2019	1	4.2%
2020	2	8.3%
2021	3	12.5%
2022	1	4.2%
2023	4	16.7%
2024	4	16.7%
2025partial year	3	12.5%

Which technologies does Particles Plus, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H04Q - Selecting 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

Particles Plus, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Particles Plus, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #12,611 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Particles Plus, Inc. against Proximagen, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.8/100 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

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