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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SafeTraces, Inc. ranks #20,354 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 SafeTraces, Inc. hold?

SafeTraces, Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is SafeTraces, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

SafeTraces, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

SafeTraces, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +900% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

SafeTraces, Inc.'s patents average 17.9 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 SafeTraces, 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

SafeTraces, Inc.

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

SafeTraces, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 7 patents, ranking #1,382 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safetraces ranks #20,354 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 15 technology areas.

#20,354
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +900%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20354 · US Corporation #20,354 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,354/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SafeAI
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +900% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SafeAI, 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 Safetraces’s 41.8 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 9.4 pts (22%) Velocity 8.0 pts (19%) Breadth 13.7 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Industrial… · near

42
I D Systems · near

42
M M A Design · near

42
Mawetal · near

42
SafeTraces · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safetraces's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Safetraces?

Each dot is one of Safetraces’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). Safetraces’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Safetraces's grants concentrate

SafeTraces, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Safetraces sits between SURYS and Saltel Industries.

Safetraces's three-year grant acceleration

SafeTraces, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Surys

14
Symbolics

14
System S P A

14
Safeai

14
Safeworks

14
Safran Passenger…

14
Saguna Networks

14
Saltel Industries

14
Safetraces ◀

14

What this shows SafeTraces holds 14 patents at rank #20,412, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SafeTraces

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,412 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SafeTraces, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), SafeTraces ranks #1,382 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

I.D. Systems, Inc. 42 M.M.A. Design, LLC 42 Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd. 42 Mawetal LLC 42

Safetraces's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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SafeTraces, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	7.1%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	3	21.4%
2023	5	35.7%
2024	1	7.1%
2025partial year	3	21.4%

Which technologies does SafeTraces, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

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 6

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 3

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 3

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

C07K - Peptides 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 15 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

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

SafeTraces, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #20,354 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SafeTraces, Inc. against SURYS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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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