Where does Scanadu Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Scanadu Incorporated ranks #19,116 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 Scanadu Incorporated hold?

Scanadu Incorporated holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Scanadu Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Scanadu Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 29.2 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Scanadu Incorporated focus on?

Scanadu Incorporated's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 6 patents, ranking #2,307 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Scanadu Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Scanadu Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Scanadu Incorporated's patents?

Scanadu Incorporated's patents average 15.0 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 Scanadu Incorporated 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

Scanadu Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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, Scanadu ranks #19,116 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 9 technology areas.

#19,116
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.2/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19116 · US Corporation #19,116 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,116/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sankei Giken Kogyo
CPC-NARROW G01N · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sankei Giken Kogyo 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 Scanadu’s 29.2 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 9.6 pts (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.6 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Scanadu Incorporated · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Scanadu's Innovation Score is 29.2/100 (30th percentile 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 Scanadu?

Each dot is one of Scanadu’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). Scanadu’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Scanadu's grants concentrate

Scanadu Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Scanadu sits between Sankei Giken Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Secuve Co., Ltd..

Sankei Giken Kogyo

15
Sarcode Bioscience

15
Sawafuji Electric

15
Sawai Pharmaceuti…

15
Screening Room Me…

15
SDL Netherlands B…

15
SDS Biotech K K

15
Secuve

15
Scanadu Incorpora… ◀

15

What this shows Scanadu holds 15 patents at rank #19,106, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Scanadu

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,106 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Scanadu's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Scanadu Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	13.3%
2016	4	26.7%
2017	5	33.3%
2018	3	20.0%
2019	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Scanadu Incorporated patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04B - Transmission 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Scanadu Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Scanadu Incorporated's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #19,116 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Scanadu Incorporated against Sankei Giken Kogyo Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.2/100 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.