Where does Aortech International Plc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aortech International Plc ranks #20,739 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 Aortech International Plc hold?

Aortech International Plc holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Aortech International Plc's Innovation Score?

Aortech International Plc has an Innovation Score of 26.7 out of 100 (top 79% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Aortech International Plc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aortech International Plc's recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Aortech International Plc's patents?

Aortech International Plc's patents average 11.6 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 Aortech International Plc 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

Aortech International Plc

Q: What technology areas does Aortech International Plc focus on?

Aortech International Plc's top technology area is C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aortech ranks #20,739 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#20,739
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 79%
by Innovation Score (26.7/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20739 · Foreign Corporation #20,739 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,739/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Amiad Water Systems
CPC-NARROW C08G · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amiad Water Systems 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aortech International · this assignee

27
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Aortech's Innovation Score is 26.7/100 (top 79% 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.

Where Aortech's grants concentrate

Aortech International Plc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Aortech sits between Amiad Water Systems Ltd. and Applied Silver, Inc..

Amiad Water Syste…

13
Animas

13
Ann & Robert H Lu…

13
Anram Holdings

13
Appbrilliance

13
Appdirect

13
Application Solut…

13
Applied Silver

13
Aortech Internati… ◀

13

What this shows Aortech holds 13 patents at rank #20,768, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aortech

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,768 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise THAN BY React…)

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

Aortech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 Top 79% higher than 21% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Aortech International Plc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	2	15.4%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	1	7.7%
2020	4	30.8%

Which technologies does Aortech International Plc patent most?

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 13

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 9

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 4

B29C - SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 4

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 4

C09J - ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES 4

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 4

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 3

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,739

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.7 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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