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Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thermo ranks #43,642 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 6 technology areas.

#43,642
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.4/100)
6.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43642 · Foreign Corporation #43,642 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
  • LOWER-Q #43,642/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH The Williamette Valley
  • CPC-NARROW C12M · 6 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 39.4/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.7 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Williamette Valley Company LLC (±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 39.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Thermo

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Thermo's Innovation Score is 39.4/100 (top 38% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

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 6.7 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 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. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 5.96.06.066.06.06.1 510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent The Williamette Valley Company LLC - 6, 16.17The Williamette V…The Wireless Registry, Inc. - 6, 14.5The Wireless Regi…TheVax Genetics Vaccine Co., Ltd. - 6, 19Thevax Genetics V…Thermacut, K.S. - 6, 13.33Thermacut K SThink Research Corporation - 6, 18.17Think ResearchThink-Cell Software GMBH - 6, 20.83Think-cell Softwa…Thintronics, Inc. - 6, 18.5ThintronicsThisCap, Inc. - 6, 12.17ThiscapThermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd. - 6, 6.67Thermo Fisher Sci…
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 (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 16.7% of grants classified under C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Thermo sits between The Williamette Valley Company LLC and ThisCap, Inc..

Thermo's three-year grant acceleration

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Who files at Thermo's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Thermo holds 6 patents at rank #43,681, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Thermo

By rank, the assignees closest to #43,681 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology)

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 C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology), Thermo ranks #534 of 832 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

JF Polymers (SUZHOU) Co., Ltd. 39 California Innovations Inc. 39 Euro-Celtique S.A. 39 Resource Consortium Limited, LLC 39

Thermo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2021 1 16.7%
2024 4 66.7%
2025partial year 1 16.7%

Which technologies does Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 6 of 6 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 (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12M
  • Ranked #43,642 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd. against The Williamette Valley Company LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 39.4/100 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

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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

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.