Where does Baxalta Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Baxalta Incorporated ranks #1,405 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 Baxalta Incorporated hold?

Baxalta Incorporated holds 300 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Baxalta Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Baxalta Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Baxalta Incorporated focus on?

Baxalta Incorporated's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 168 patents, ranking #105 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Baxalta Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Baxalta Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -73% 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 Baxalta Incorporated's patents?

Baxalta Incorporated's patents average 18.6 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 Baxalta Incorporated 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

Baxalta Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 300 granted patents across 27 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Baxalta ranks #1,405 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 300 patents across 27 technology areas.

#1,405
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1405 · US Corporation #1,405 · 300 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 300 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,405/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amphenol
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amphenol 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.

How Baxalta’s 49.4 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 19.7 pts (40%) Velocity 0.1 pts (0%) Breadth 18.4 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Impinj · near

49
Minebea · near

49
Wheel Pros · near

49
Baxalta Incorporated · this assignee

49
Huron International · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Baxalta's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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 Baxalta?

Each dot is one of Baxalta’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). Baxalta’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Baxalta's grants concentrate

Baxalta Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 56% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (65 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Baxalta sits between Voith Patent GmbH and Lemon Inc..

Baxalta's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Baxalta Incorporated moved from 101 to 2 grants (0.02x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,270. See the growth leaderboard.

Voith Patent

301
Wal-mart Stores

301
Amphenol

300
Arvinmeritor Tech…

300
Energous

300
Baxalta Incorpora… ◀

300
Bloom Energy

299
Greatbatch

299
Lemon

299

What this shows Baxalta holds 300 patents at rank #1,405, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Baxalta

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,405 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Baxalta, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Baxalta ranks #105 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Huron Technologies International Inc. 49 Minebea Co., Ltd. 49 Impinj, Inc. 49 Wheel Pros LLC 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. 18.6 avg Sigmasense, LLC. 18.6 avg Berry Plastics Corporation 18.6 avg Intematix Corporation 18.6 avg

Baxalta's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Baxalta Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	9.7%
2016	65	21.7%
2017	65	21.7%
2018	38	12.7%
2019	39	13.0%
2020	52	17.3%
2021	10	3.3%
2022	2	0.7%

Which technologies does Baxalta Incorporated patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 168

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 164

C07K - Peptides 147

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 103

C12Y - Enzymes 73

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 52

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 32

B01D - Separation 28

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 22

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 14

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 14

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 12

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 12

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 8

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 6

Top 15 of 27 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

Baxalta Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Baxalta Incorporated's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 56% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #1,405 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Baxalta Incorporated against Voith Patent GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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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