Where does ADA Foundation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ADA Foundation ranks #15,086 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does ADA Foundation hold?

ADA Foundation holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is ADA Foundation's Innovation Score?

ADA Foundation has an Innovation Score of 36.9 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ADA Foundation focus on?

ADA Foundation's top technology area is A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES) with 16 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is ADA Foundation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ADA Foundation's recent grant velocity is -54% 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 ADA Foundation's patents?

ADA Foundation's patents average 16.1 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 ADA Foundation 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

ADA Foundation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ADA ranks #15,086 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 23 technology areas.

#15,086
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.9/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15086 · US Corporation #15,086 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,086/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH 2Pi-Sigma
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 2pi-sigma Corp. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ADA Foundation · this assignee

37
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows ADA Foundation stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #15,086 of 50,000; Innovation Score 36.9/100 sits in the top 45% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is 2pi-sigma Corp. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

ADA Foundation has been granted 19 US utility patents between 2015 and 2021, placing ADA Foundation at #15,086 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 23 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 16.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES). As a US Corporation, ADA Foundation is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, ADA sits between Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems Gmbh (20 patents, rank #15,075) and Advanced Micro-fabrication Equipment Inc. (19 patents, rank #15,083) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 36.9/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 6 grants, compared with 13 in the 2015–2019 window, a -54% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. ADA Foundation's 16.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 23 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

thyssenkrupp Mari…

20
2pi-sigma

19
7D Surgical

19
ACT

19
Aderans

19
ADOM Advanced Opt…

19
Advanced Agrilyti…

19
Advanced Micro-fa…

19
ADA Foundation ◀

19

What this shows ADA holds 19 patents at rank #15,079, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ADA

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,079 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

ADA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

View data table

ADA Foundation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	26.3%
2016	2	10.5%
2017	2	10.5%
2018	1	5.3%
2019	3	15.8%
2020	4	21.1%
2021	2	10.5%

Which technologies does ADA Foundation patent most?

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 16

A61Q - SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS 4

C08F - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS 4

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 3

B33Y - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C09J - ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES 3

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 2

G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION 2

A61C - DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE 2

C09D - COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR 2

C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C 1

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 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES 1

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#15,086

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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