Where does Baylor College of Medicine rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Baylor College of Medicine ranks #1,907 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 Baylor College of Medicine hold?

Baylor College of Medicine holds 210 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 54 technology areas.

What is Baylor College of Medicine's Innovation Score?

Baylor College of Medicine has an Innovation Score of 61.4 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Baylor College of Medicine focus on?

Baylor College of Medicine's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 156 patents, ranking #113 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 54 CPC subclasses total.

Is Baylor College of Medicine's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Baylor College of Medicine's recent grant velocity is +29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Baylor College of Medicine's patents?

Baylor College of Medicine's patents average 16.3 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 Baylor College of Medicine 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

Baylor College of Medicine

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 210 granted patents across 54 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, Baylor ranks #1,907 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 210 patents across 54 technology areas.

#1,907
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1907 · US Corporation #1,907 · 210 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 210 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,907/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atlassian US
CPC-WIDE A61K · 54 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atlassian US, 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 Baylor’s 61.4 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 18.5 pts (30%) Velocity 8.1 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Novo Nordisk A/S · near

61
Baylor College of… · this assignee

61
IFP Energies Nouvelles · near

61
Nchain Licensing · near

61
Sumitomo Chemical · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Baylor's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (top 3% 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 Baylor?

Each dot is one of Baylor’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). Baylor’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Baylor's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Baylor College of Medicine received 107 grants versus 83 in 2015–2019 (+29% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 8. Lead class A61K accounts for 74.3% of the portfolio across 54 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (#1,904) and Hitachi Energy Ltd (#1,912).

Baylor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Baylor College of Medicine moved from 59 to 72 grants (1.22x 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 #760. See the growth leaderboard.

Westinghouse Air…

211
Xyzprinting

211
Atlassian US

210
Benteler Automobi…

210
CPS Technology Ho…

210
Dow Corning

210
Hitachi High-tech…

210
Hitachi Energy

210
Baylor College of… ◀

210

What this shows Baylor holds 210 patents at rank #1,908, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Baylor

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,908 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Baylor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Baylor ranks #113 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Nchain Licensing AG 61 IFP Energies Nouvelles 61 Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited 61 Novo Nordisk A/S 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG 16.3 avg Institut Pasteur 16.3 avg Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd. 16.3 avg Insulet Corporation 16.3 avg

Baylor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Baylor College of Medicine patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	7.6%
2016	8	3.8%
2017	21	10.0%
2018	14	6.7%
2019	24	11.4%
2020	11	5.2%
2021	24	11.4%
2022	25	11.9%
2023	27	12.9%
2024	20	9.5%
2025partial year	20	9.5%

Which technologies does Baylor College of Medicine patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 156

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 116

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 95

C07K - Peptides 63

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 21

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 21

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 18

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 16

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 15

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 13

C12Y - Enzymes 12

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 11

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 9

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 6

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 6

Top 15 of 54 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

Baylor College of Medicine's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Baylor College of Medicine's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 74.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #1,907 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Baylor College of Medicine against Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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.

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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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