Where does Trace Matters Scientific LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trace Matters Scientific LLC ranks #25,426 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 Trace Matters Scientific LLC hold?

Trace Matters Scientific LLC holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Trace Matters Scientific LLC's Innovation Score?

Trace Matters Scientific LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.4 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Trace Matters Scientific LLC focus on?

Trace Matters Scientific LLC's top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 11 patents, ranking #187 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Trace Matters Scientific LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Trace Matters Scientific LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Trace Matters Scientific LLC's patents?

Trace Matters Scientific LLC's patents average 39.8 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 Trace Matters Scientific LLC 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

Trace Matters Scientific LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trace ranks #25,426 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 3 technology areas.

#25,426
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.4/100): 39.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25426 · US Corporation #25,426 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,426/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tolomatic
CPC-NARROW H01J · 3 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 39.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tolomatic, 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 Trace’s 46.4 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 8.6 pts (19%) Velocity 16.7 pts (36%) Breadth 6.1 pts (13%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Trace Matters… · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trace's Innovation Score is 46.4/100 (top 21% 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 Trace?

Each dot is one of Trace’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). Trace’s own 39.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Trace's grants concentrate

Trace Matters Scientific LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Trace sits between Tolomatic, Inc. and Trident Limited.

Trace's three-year grant acceleration

Trace Matters Scientific LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Tolomatic

11
Tooltech

11
Touratech

11
Toyota Body Seiko

11
Trade Box

11
Trapeze Networks

11
Tricorntech Taiwan

11
Trident

11
Trace Matters Sci… ◀

11

What this shows Trace holds 11 patents at rank #25,420, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trace

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,420 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Trace's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Trace Matters Scientific LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	18.2%
2022	2	18.2%
2023	1	9.1%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	4	36.4%

Which technologies does Trace Matters Scientific LLC patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

Top 3 of 3 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

Trace Matters Scientific LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trace Matters Scientific LLC's lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #25,426 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trace Matters Scientific LLC against Tolomatic, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.4/100 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

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.