Where does Portal Instruments, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Portal Instruments, Inc. ranks #9,589 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 Portal Instruments, Inc. hold?

Portal Instruments, Inc. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Portal Instruments, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Portal Instruments, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Portal Instruments, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Portal Instruments, Inc.'s patents?

Portal Instruments, Inc.'s patents average 16.8 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 Portal Instruments, 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

Portal Instruments, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Portal Instruments, Inc. focus on?

Portal Instruments, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 27 patents, ranking #261 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Portal ranks #9,589 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 7 technology areas.

#9,589
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9589 · US Corporation #9,589 · 33 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,589/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pacific Handy Cutter
CPC-NARROW A61M · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pacific Handy Cutter, 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 Portal’s 35.9 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 12.2 pts (34%) Velocity 4.3 pts (12%) Breadth 9.4 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cequent Performance… · near

36
fairlife · near

36
MZ IP Holdings · near

36
Portal Instruments · this assignee

36
Highlife SAS · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Portal's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Portal?

Each dot is one of Portal’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). Portal’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Portal's grants concentrate

Portal Instruments, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Portal sits between Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc. and Quanzhou Sanan Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.

Portal's three-year grant acceleration

Portal Instruments, Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Pacific Handy Cut…

33
Par Pharmaceutical

33
Patreon

33
Polder Products

33
Portola Pharmaceu…

33
Qbase

33
Qingdao Goertek T…

33
Quanzhou Sanan Se…

33
Portal Instruments ◀

33

What this shows Portal holds 33 patents at rank #9,589, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Portal

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,589 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Portal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Portal ranks #261 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

MZ IP Holdings, LLC 36 fairlife, LLC 36 Cequent Performance Products, Inc. 36 Highlife SAS 36

Portal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Portal Instruments, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	6.1%
2019	3	9.1%
2020	10	30.3%
2021	4	12.1%
2022	4	12.1%
2023	3	9.1%
2024	4	12.1%
2025partial year	3	9.1%

Which technologies does Portal Instruments, Inc. patent most?

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 27

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Portal Instruments, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #9,589 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Portal Instruments, Inc. against Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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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