Where does Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp ranks #20,777 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 Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp hold?

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp's Innovation Score?

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp has an Innovation Score of 28.2 out of 100 (top 74% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp's recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp's patents?

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp's patents average 14.2 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 Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp 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

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp

Q: What technology areas does Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp focus on?

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp's top technology area is A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES) with 10 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: A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Astrazeneca ranks #20,777 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#20,777
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 74%
by Innovation Score (28.2/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20777 · US Corporation #20,777 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,777/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Asahi Kasei Construc…
CPC-NARROW A61K · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corporation (±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
Astrazeneca Pharmace… · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Astrazeneca's Innovation Score is 28.2/100 (top 74% 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 Astrazeneca's grants concentrate

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Astrazeneca sits between Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corporation and Aurora Spine, Inc..

Asahi Kasei Const…

13
Asahi Polyslider

13
Ascent Solar

13
Ashland Licensing…

13
Asymptote

13
Athenex

13
Atlantic Health S…

13
Aurora Spine

13
Astrazeneca Pharm… ◀

13

What this shows Astrazeneca holds 13 patents at rank #20,785, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Astrazeneca

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,785 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Astrazeneca's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 74% higher than 26% 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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Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	46.2%
2016	4	30.8%
2017	1	7.7%
2018	1	7.7%
2020	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp patent most?

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 10

C07K - PEPTIDES 9

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 8

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 1

C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 1

A61M - DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY ; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR 1

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 1

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 1

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 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,777

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.2 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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