Where does B. Braun Medical SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), B. Braun Medical SAS ranks #15,846 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 B. Braun Medical SAS hold?

B. Braun Medical SAS holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is B. Braun Medical SAS's Innovation Score?

B. Braun Medical SAS has an Innovation Score of 31.2 out of 100 (37th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is B. Braun Medical SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

B. Braun Medical SAS's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 B. Braun Medical SAS's patents?

B. Braun Medical SAS's patents average 16.6 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 B. Braun Medical SAS 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

B. Braun Medical SAS

Q: What technology areas does B. Braun Medical SAS focus on?

B. Braun Medical SAS's top technology area is 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) with 12 patents, ranking #539 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: 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 Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, B. ranks #15,846 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 7 technology areas.

#15,846
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 37th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.2/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15846 · Foreign Corporation #15,846 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,846/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avant-Garde IP
CPC-NARROW A61F · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avant-Garde IP LLC (±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 B.’s 31.2 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 10.2 pts (33%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 9.4 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
B Braun Medical SAS · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows B.'s Innovation Score is 31.2/100 (37th percentile 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 B.?

Each dot is one of B.’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). B.’s own 16.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where B.'s grants concentrate

B. Braun Medical SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under 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 Device). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, B. sits between Avant-Garde IP LLC and Biontech RNA Pharmaceuticals GMBH.

B.'s three-year grant acceleration

B. Braun Medical SAS shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Avant-garde IP

18
Avexxin AS

18
Ayasdi AI

18
B&B Molders

18
Basf Beauty Care…

18
Bayotech

18
Biboting Internat…

18
Biontech RNA Phar…

18
B Braun Medical S… ◀

18

What this shows B. holds 18 patents at rank #15,847, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near B

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,847 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

B.'s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 37th percentile higher than 37% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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B. Braun Medical SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	16.7%
2016	3	16.7%
2017	3	16.7%
2018	4	22.2%
2019	1	5.6%
2020	2	11.1%
2021	1	5.6%
2022	1	5.6%

Which technologies does B. Braun Medical SAS patent most?

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 12

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

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 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

B. Braun Medical SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

B. Braun Medical SAS's lead technology class is 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 Device), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #15,846 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare B. Braun Medical SAS against Avant-Garde IP LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.2/100 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

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