Where does Albany Medical College rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Albany Medical College ranks #11,904 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 Albany Medical College hold?

Albany Medical College holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Albany Medical College's Innovation Score?

Albany Medical College has an Innovation Score of 36.7 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Albany Medical College focus on?

Albany Medical College's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 12 patents, ranking #1,877 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Albany Medical College's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Albany Medical College's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Albany Medical College's patents?

Albany Medical College's patents average 15.4 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 Albany Medical College 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

Albany Medical College

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 14 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Albany ranks #11,904 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 14 technology areas.

#11,904
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.7/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11904 · US Corporation #11,904 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,904/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Elemental
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc. (±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 Albany’s 36.7 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 11.3 pts (31%) Velocity 3.0 pts (8%) Breadth 13.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Albany Medical College · this assignee

37
Drone-Control · near

37
FK Irons · near

37
Livedo · near

37
Citizen Finedevice · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Albany's Innovation Score is 36.7/100 (top 46% 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 Albany?

Each dot is one of Albany’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). Albany’s own 15.4 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.

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

Where Albany's grants concentrate

Albany Medical College is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 48% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Albany sits between Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc. and Altek Corporation.

Albany's three-year grant acceleration

Albany Medical College shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Advanced Elemental

25
Aeroflex Colorado…

25
Air Water

25
Akebia Therapeuti…

25
Alkahest

25
Alphasense Oy

25
Alpine of Silicon…

25
Altek

25
Albany Medical Co… ◀

25

What this shows Albany holds 25 patents at rank #11,919, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Albany

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,919 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Albany, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Albany ranks #1,877 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

FK Irons Inc. 37 Livedo Corporation 37 Drone-Control, LLC 37 Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. 37

Albany's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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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Albany Medical College patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.0%
2016	3	12.0%
2017	4	16.0%
2018	1	4.0%
2019	3	12.0%
2020	2	8.0%
2021	4	16.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	2	8.0%
2025partial year	2	8.0%

Which technologies does Albany Medical College patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 12

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 9

C07K - Peptides 6

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 5

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 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 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

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 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 1

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Albany Medical College's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Albany Medical College's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 48% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #11,904 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Albany Medical College against Advanced Elemental Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.7/100 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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