Where does Agfa Healthcare NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Agfa Healthcare NV ranks #5,137 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 Agfa Healthcare NV hold?

Agfa Healthcare NV holds 67 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Agfa Healthcare NV's Innovation Score?

Agfa Healthcare NV has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Agfa Healthcare NV focus on?

Agfa Healthcare NV's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 34 patents, ranking #436 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Agfa Healthcare NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Agfa Healthcare NV's recent grant velocity is -69% 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 Agfa Healthcare NV's patents?

Agfa Healthcare NV's patents average 13.5 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 Agfa Healthcare NV 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 Foreign Corporation

Agfa Healthcare NV

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 67 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Agfa ranks #5,137 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 67 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,137
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5137 · Foreign Corporation #5,137 · 67 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 67 grants
UPPER-Q #5,137/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AAC Optics (Suzhou)
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (±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 Agfa’s 40.2 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 14.6 pts (36%) Velocity 1.7 pts (4%) Breadth 15.8 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agfa Healthcare · this assignee

40
Drivent · near

40
Intouch · near

40
Nissin ION Equipment · near

40
J S T MFG · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Agfa's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 Agfa?

Each dot is one of Agfa’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). Agfa’s own 13.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Agfa's grants concentrate

Agfa Healthcare NV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 50.7% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Agfa sits between zSpace, Inc. and Adient US LLC.

Agfa's three-year grant acceleration

Agfa Healthcare NV shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

zspace

68
AAC Optics (Suzho…

67
Academisch Zieken…

67
Adey Holdings (20…

67
Amgen Research (M…

67
Amini Innovation

67
Areva NP

67
Adient US

67
Agfa Healthcare ◀

67

What this shows Agfa holds 67 patents at rank #5,136, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Agfa

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,136 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Agfa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Agfa ranks #436 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Intouch Technologies, Inc. 40 Nissin ION Equipment Co., Ltd. 40 Drivent LLC 40 J.S.T. MFG. Co., Ltd. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.5 here).

Flex Ltd. 13.5 avg Amdocs Software Systems Limited 13.5 avg Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon 13.5 avg Spectranetics LLC 13.5 avg

Agfa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

Agfa Healthcare NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	20.9%
2016	12	17.9%
2017	13	19.4%
2018	8	11.9%
2019	4	6.0%
2020	5	7.5%
2021	7	10.4%
2022	1	1.5%
2023	2	3.0%
2024	1	1.5%

Which technologies does Agfa Healthcare NV patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 34

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 28

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 4

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

Top 15 of 20 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

Agfa Healthcare NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Agfa Healthcare NV's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 50.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #5,137 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Agfa Healthcare NV against zSpace, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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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