Where does Abbott Point of Care Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Abbott Point of Care Inc. ranks #2,672 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 Point of Care Inc. hold?

Abbott Point of Care Inc. holds 145 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Abbott Point of Care Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Abbott Point of Care Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.1 out of 100 (top 17% 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 Point of Care Inc. focus on?

Abbott Point of Care Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 123 patents, ranking #106 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Abbott Point of Care Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Abbott Point of Care Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Point of Care Inc.'s patents?

Abbott Point of Care Inc.'s patents average 16.6 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 Point of Care 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

Abbott Point of Care Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 145 granted patents across 29 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, Abbott ranks #2,672 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 145 patents across 29 technology areas.

#2,672
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.1/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2672 · US Corporation #2,672 · 145 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 145 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,672/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Analogic
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Analogic Corporation (±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 48.1 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 17.2 pts (36%) Velocity 1.9 pts (4%) Breadth 19.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oakley · near

48
Spogen Biotech · near

48
Abbott Point of Care · this assignee

48
Wilson Sporting Goods · near

48
Chipone Technology… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Abbott's Innovation Score is 48.1/100 (top 17% 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 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 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.

Where Abbott's grants concentrate

Abbott Point of Care Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 84.8% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (26 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Abbott sits between Spin Memory, Inc. and Fluor Technologies Corporation.

Abbott's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Abbott Point of Care Inc. moved from 39 to 11 grants (0.28x 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 #3,019. See the growth leaderboard.

Spin Memory

146
Samsonite IP Hold…

146
Sangamo Therapeut…

146
Scienbizip Consul…

146
Analogic

145
Clark Equipment

145
ECP Entwicklungsg…

145
Fluor

145
Abbott Point of C… ◀

145

What this shows Abbott holds 145 patents at rank #2,672, 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 #2,672 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 #106 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Wilson Sporting Goods Co. 48 Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. 48 Oakley, Inc. 48 Spogen Biotech, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

Sandia Corporation 16.6 avg Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC 16.6 avg Landa Corporation Ltd. 16.6 avg Ridge Tool Company 16.6 avg

Abbott's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Abbott Point of Care Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	15.2%
2016	23	15.9%
2017	22	15.2%
2018	26	17.9%
2019	15	10.3%
2020	11	7.6%
2021	13	9.0%
2022	5	3.4%
2023	2	1.4%
2024	4	2.8%
2025partial year	2	1.4%

Which technologies does Abbott Point of Care Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 123

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 70

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 14

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 8

C07K - Peptides 8

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

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 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 3

Top 15 of 29 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

Abbott Point of Care Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Abbott Point of Care Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 84.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #2,672 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Abbott Point of Care Inc. against Spin Memory, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.1/100 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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