Where does Abbott Laboratories rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Abbott Laboratories ranks #917 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 Abbott Laboratories hold?

Abbott Laboratories holds 485 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is Abbott Laboratories's Innovation Score?

Abbott Laboratories has an Innovation Score of 59.3 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%).

What technology areas does Abbott Laboratories focus on?

Abbott Laboratories's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 200 patents, ranking #61 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

Is Abbott Laboratories's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Abbott Laboratories's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Abbott Laboratories's patents?

Abbott Laboratories's patents average 15.8 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 Abbott Laboratories 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

Abbott Laboratories

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 485 granted patents across 74 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Abbott ranks #917 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 485 patents across 74 technology areas.

#917
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.3/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R917 · US Corporation #917 · 485 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 485 grants
TOP-DECILE #917/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bridgestone…
CPC-WIDE G01N · 74 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, 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 Abbott’s 59.3 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 21.4 pts (36%) Velocity 3.4 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abbott Laboratories · this assignee

59
American Axle &… · near

59
Auckland Uniservices · near

59
Howmet Aerospace · near

59
Syntegon Technology · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Abbott's Innovation Score is 59.3/100 (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 Abbott?

Each dot is one of Abbott’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). Abbott’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Abbott's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Abbott Laboratories received 175 grants versus 299 in 2015–2019 (-41% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 71 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 23. Lead class G01N accounts for 41.2% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (#913) and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. (#921).

Abbott's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Abbott Laboratories moved from 156 to 80 grants (0.51x 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 #2,665. See the growth leaderboard.

Tyco (Shanghai)

489
Wistron Neweb

489
Biomet Manufactur…

488
University-indust…

488
Bridgestone Ameri…

485
Johnson & Johnson…

485
Abbott Laboratori… ◀

485
Rhodia Operations

484
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo

484

What this shows Abbott holds 485 patents at rank #917, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Abbott

By rank, the assignees closest to #917 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Abbott, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Abbott ranks #61 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. 59 Auckland Uniservices Limited 59 Howmet Aerospace Inc. 59 Syntegon Technology GmbH 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

ABB Schweiz AG 15.8 avg THE Hillman Group, Inc. 15.8 avg MOR Research Applications Ltd. 15.8 avg Hytto PTE. Ltd. 15.8 avg

Abbott'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Abbott Laboratories patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	52	10.7%
2016	57	11.8%
2017	71	14.6%
2018	58	12.0%
2019	61	12.6%
2020	52	10.7%
2021	43	8.9%
2022	32	6.6%
2023	23	4.7%
2024	25	5.2%
2025partial year	11	2.3%

Which technologies does Abbott Laboratories patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 200

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 77

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 73

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 73

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 70

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 51

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 48

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 46

C07K - Peptides 23

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 22

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 22

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 21

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 14

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 14

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 13

Top 15 of 74 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Abbott Laboratories's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Abbott Laboratories's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 41.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #917 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Abbott Laboratories against Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.3/100 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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