Where does Tempus Labs, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tempus Labs, Inc. ranks #5,478 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 Tempus Labs, Inc. hold?

Tempus Labs, Inc. holds 63 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Tempus Labs, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Tempus Labs, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Tempus Labs, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +6100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Tempus Labs, Inc.'s patents average 33.7 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 Tempus Labs, 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

Tempus Labs, Inc.

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

Tempus Labs, Inc.'s top technology area is G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data) with 38 patents, ranking #125 of 3,149 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 63 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tempus ranks #5,478 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 63 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,478
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.5/100): 33.7
avg claims per patent: +6100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5478 · US Corporation #5,478 · 63 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 63 grants
UPPER-Q #5,478/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Skyhook Wireless
CPC-FOCUS G16H · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 33.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +6100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Skyhook Wireless, 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 Tempus’s 58.5 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 14.4 pts (25%) Velocity 13.3 pts (23%) Breadth 15.8 pts (27%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clemson University · near

59
Manitou Italia S R L · near

59
Hainan University · near

59
Jtekt · near

59
Tempus Labs · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tempus's Innovation Score is 58.5/100 (top 4% 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 Tempus?

Each dot is one of Tempus’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). Tempus’s own 33.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tempus's grants concentrate

Tempus Labs, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 60.3% of grants classified under G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Tempus sits between Skyhook Wireless, Inc. and Unlikely Artificial Intelligence Limited.

Tempus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tempus Labs, Inc. moved from 21 to 42 grants (2.00x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Skyhook Wireless

63
Sumitomo Pharma

63
Suncor Energy

63
Taser Internation…

63
Therma-stor

63
Tyco UK

63
University Indust…

63
Unlikely Artifici…

63
Tempus Labs ◀

63

What this shows Tempus holds 63 patents at rank #5,478, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tempus

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,478 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G16H (Healthcare Informatics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tempus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G16H (Healthcare Informatics), Tempus ranks #125 of 3,149 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Hainan University 59 Jtekt Corporation 59 Manitou Italia S.R.L. 59 Clemson University 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (33.7 here).

THE Invention Science Fund I, LLC 33.6 avg ResMed Sensor Technologies Limited 33.1 avg iControl Networks, Inc. 33.1 avg Camso Inc. 34.5 avg

Tempus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Tempus Labs, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	1.6%
2020	2	3.2%
2021	18	28.6%
2022	18	28.6%
2023	21	33.3%
2024	3	4.8%

Which technologies does Tempus Labs, Inc. patent most?

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 38

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 26

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 21

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

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 11

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 7

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

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

H04B - Transmission 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

C07K - Peptides 2

Top 15 of 20 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

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

Tempus Labs, Inc.'s lead technology class is G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data), 60.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G16H
Ranked #5,478 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tempus Labs, Inc. against Skyhook Wireless, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.5/100 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

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