Where does Aetna Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aetna Inc. ranks #3,722 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 Aetna Inc. hold?

Aetna Inc. holds 97 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Aetna Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Aetna Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aetna Inc. focus on?

Aetna Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 40 patents, ranking #1,165 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aetna Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aetna Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +53% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Aetna Inc.'s patents?

Aetna Inc.'s patents average 12.7 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 Aetna 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

Aetna Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 97 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aetna ranks #3,722 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 97 patents across 15 technology areas.

#3,722
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3722 · US Corporation #3,722 · 97 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 97 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,722/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arizona Board of…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University (±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 Aetna’s 42.5 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 15.8 pts (37%) Velocity 5.3 pts (13%) Breadth 13.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aetna · this assignee

42
Cambridge Silicon… · near

42
Janome Sewing Machine · near

42
Patek Philippe Geneve · near

42
Vital Connect · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aetna's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Aetna?

Each dot is one of Aetna’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). Aetna’s own 12.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aetna's grants concentrate

Aetna Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 41.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Aetna sits between Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC and Berlin Packaging, LLC.

Aetna's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Aetna Inc. moved from 39 to 31 grants (0.80x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Strong Force TX P…

98
Tohoku Pioneer

98
Valmet AB

98
West Affum Holdin…

98
Arizona Board of…

97
Arlo

97
Bulgari S P A

97
Berlin Packaging

97
Aetna ◀

97

What this shows Aetna holds 97 patents at rank #3,722, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aetna

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,722 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aetna, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Aetna ranks #1,165 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd. 42 Vital Connect, Inc. 42 Patek Philippe SA Geneve 42 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Sitronix Technology Corp. 12.7 avg Federal-mogul Motorparts LLC 12.7 avg General Interface Solution Limited 12.7 avg Bemis Manufacturing Company 12.7 avg

Aetna's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Aetna Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.0%
2017	8	8.2%
2018	12	12.4%
2019	15	15.5%
2020	9	9.3%
2021	15	15.5%
2022	15	15.5%
2023	11	11.3%
2024	5	5.2%
2025partial year	6	6.2%

Which technologies does Aetna Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 29

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 20

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 15

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 14

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Aetna Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aetna Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 41.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,722 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aetna Inc. against Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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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