Where does Picarro, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Picarro, Inc. ranks #6,826 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 Picarro, Inc. hold?

Picarro, Inc. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Picarro, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Picarro, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.5 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Picarro, Inc. focus on?

Picarro, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 35 patents, ranking #439 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

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

Picarro, 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 Picarro, Inc.'s patents?

Picarro, Inc.'s patents average 19.5 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 Picarro, 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

Picarro, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 14 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, Picarro ranks #6,826 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 14 technology areas.

#6,826
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.5/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6826 · US Corporation #6,826 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,826/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oerlikon Textile & KG
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG (±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 Picarro’s 40.5 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 13.5 pts (33%) Velocity 2.1 pts (5%) Breadth 13.2 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adare Pharmaceuticals · near

41
D3 Innovation · near

41
Nien Made Enterprise · near

41
Novan · near

41
Picarro · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Picarro's Innovation Score is 40.5/100 (top 35% 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 Picarro?

Each dot is one of Picarro’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). Picarro’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Picarro's grants concentrate

Picarro, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Picarro sits between Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd. and Reata Pharmaceuticals Holdings, LLC.

Picarro's three-year grant acceleration

Picarro, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Otsuka Chemical

49
Oerlikon Textile…

49
Pelco

49
Pixelworks

49
Principia Biophar…

49
Pulmonx

49
Qliktech Internat…

49
Reata Pharmaceuti…

49
Picarro ◀

49

What this shows Picarro holds 49 patents at rank #6,827, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Picarro

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,827 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Picarro, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Picarro ranks #439 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Novan, Inc. 41 Nien Made Enterprise Co., Ltd. 41 Adare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 41 D3 Innovation Inc. 41

Picarro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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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Picarro, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.1%
2016	7	14.3%
2017	12	24.5%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	6	12.2%
2020	5	10.2%
2021	5	10.2%
2022	2	4.1%
2023	2	4.1%
2024	1	2.0%
2025partial year	4	8.2%

Which technologies does Picarro, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 35

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

G01W - Meteorology 14

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 10

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 2

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 2

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 1

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 1

Top 14 of 14 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

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

Picarro, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #6,826 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Picarro, Inc. against Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.