Where does Qiagen Sciences, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Qiagen Sciences, LLC ranks #6,943 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 Qiagen Sciences, LLC hold?

Qiagen Sciences, LLC holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Qiagen Sciences, LLC's Innovation Score?

Qiagen Sciences, LLC 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%).

Is Qiagen Sciences, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Qiagen Sciences, LLC's recent grant velocity is +59% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Qiagen Sciences, LLC's patents?

Qiagen Sciences, LLC's patents average 16.7 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 Qiagen Sciences, LLC 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

Qiagen Sciences, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Qiagen Sciences, LLC focus on?

Qiagen Sciences, LLC'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 35 patents, ranking #130 of 2,502 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 23 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, Qiagen ranks #6,943 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 23 technology areas.

#6,943
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.8/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6943 · US Corporation #6,943 · 48 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,943/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Panasonic Ecology…
CPC-FOCUS C12Q · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Panasonic Ecology Systems Guangdong Co., Ltd (±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 Qiagen’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 13.4 pts (31%) Velocity 2.4 pts (6%) Breadth 17.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Koch Agronomic… · near

43
Reliant Immune… · near

43
Fungible · near

43
Qiagen Sciences · this assignee

43
TK Elevator… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Qiagen'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 Qiagen?

Each dot is one of Qiagen’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). Qiagen’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Qiagen's grants concentrate

Qiagen Sciences, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 72.9% 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 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Qiagen sits between Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd. and Semisilicon Technology Corp..

Qiagen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Qiagen Sciences, LLC moved from 28 to 10 grants (0.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Primetals Japan

48
Panasonic Ecology…

48
Picosun Oy

48
Premium Aerotec

48
Quixey

48
Rhino Rack Austra…

48
Screen Semiconduc…

48
Semisilicon Techn…

48
Qiagen Sciences ◀

48

What this shows Qiagen holds 48 patents at rank #6,942, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Qiagen

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,942 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Qiagen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12Q (Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes), Qiagen ranks #130 of 2,502 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Fungible, Inc. 43 TK Elevator Innovation and Operations GmbH 43 Reliant Immune Diagnostics, Inc. 43 Koch Agronomic Services, LLC 43

Qiagen'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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Qiagen Sciences, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.2%
2018	4	8.3%
2019	11	22.9%
2020	7	14.6%
2021	10	20.8%
2022	5	10.4%
2023	4	8.3%
2024	1	2.1%
2025partial year	4	8.3%

Which technologies does Qiagen Sciences, LLC 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 35

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 11

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 9

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 8

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 4

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

C07K - Peptides 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

Top 15 of 23 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

Qiagen Sciences, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Qiagen Sciences, LLC'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), 72.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12Q
Ranked #6,943 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Qiagen Sciences, LLC against Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd., 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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