Where does Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. ranks #3,640 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. hold?

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. holds 101 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.3 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. focus on?

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 47 patents, ranking #313 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

Is Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s patents?

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s patents average 12.8 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific 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

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 38 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thermo ranks #3,640 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 38 technology areas.

#3,640
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.3/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3640 · US Corporation #3,640 · 101 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 101 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,640/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sony OF America
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sony Corporation OF America (±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 Thermo’s 49.3 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 16.0 pts (32%) Velocity 3.8 pts (8%) Breadth 21.8 pts (44%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nitta · near

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49
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49
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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Thermo's Innovation Score is 49.3/100 (top 15% 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 Thermo?

Each dot is one of Thermo’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). Thermo’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Thermo's grants concentrate

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 46.5% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (19 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Thermo sits between Sony Corporation OF America and Zhongshan Broad-ocean Motor Co., Ltd..

Thermo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. moved from 26 to 15 grants (0.58x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,500. See the growth leaderboard.

Sony OF America

101
Tepha

101
The Radio Flyer

101
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101
Vetco Gray

101
Wahl Clipper

101
West Virginia Uni…

101
Zhongshan Broad-o…

101
Thermo Fisher Sci… ◀

101

What this shows Thermo holds 101 patents at rank #3,640, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thermo

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,640 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thermo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Thermo ranks #313 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Nitta Corporation 49 Proteus Digital Health, Inc. 49 Showa Corporation 49 University Industry Foundation, Yonsei University 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg JGC Catalysts and Chemicals Ltd. 12.8 avg Miele & CIE. KG 12.8 avg Morpho, Inc. 12.8 avg

Thermo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	11.9%
2016	11	10.9%
2017	19	18.8%
2018	16	15.8%
2019	9	8.9%
2020	10	9.9%
2021	7	6.9%
2022	3	3.0%
2023	5	5.0%
2024	7	6.9%
2025partial year	2	2.0%

Which technologies does Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 47

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 21

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 20

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 10

C12Y - Enzymes 9

C07K - Peptides 5

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 4

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 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

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

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 2

Top 15 of 38 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

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 46.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #3,640 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. against Sony Corporation OF America, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.3/100 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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