Where does Bioness Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bioness Inc. ranks #10,877 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 Bioness Inc. hold?

Bioness Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Bioness Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bioness Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.3 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bioness Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bioness Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +55% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bioness Inc.'s patents?

Bioness Inc.'s patents average 20.0 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 Bioness Inc. 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

Bioness Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bioness Inc. focus on?

Bioness Inc.'s top technology area is A61H (Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body) with 16 patents, ranking #22 of 752 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A61H (Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specifi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bioness ranks #10,877 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 13 technology areas.

#10,877
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.3/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent: +55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10877 · US Corporation #10,877 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,877/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BeBop Sensors
CPC-FOCUS A61H · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BeBop Sensors, 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 Bioness’s 45.3 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 11.6 pts (26%) Velocity 8.9 pts (20%) Breadth 12.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bioness · this assignee

45
Dango Products · near

45
Deckel Maho Pfronten · near

45
Diehl Defence & KG · near

45
Oetiker Schweiz · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bioness's Innovation Score is 45.3/100 (top 24% 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 Bioness?

Each dot is one of Bioness’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). Bioness’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bioness's grants concentrate

Bioness Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under A61H (Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specifi). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Bioness sits between BeBop Sensors, Inc. and Bracco Diagnostics Inc..

Bioness's three-year grant acceleration

Bioness Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Bebop Sensors

28
Belron Internatio…

28
Bench Tree Group

28
Biofire Diagnosti…

28
Bitvore

28
Blakely Ventures

28
Blue Buffalo Ente…

28
Bracco Diagnostics

28
Bioness ◀

28

What this shows Bioness holds 28 patents at rank #10,877, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bioness

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,877 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61H (Physical Therapy Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bioness, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61H (Physical Therapy Apparatus), Bioness ranks #22 of 752 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG 45 Oetiker Schweiz AG 45 Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH 45 Dango Products, LLC 45

Bioness's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Bioness Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.6%
2017	2	7.1%
2018	4	14.3%
2019	4	14.3%
2020	3	10.7%
2021	2	7.1%
2022	6	21.4%
2023	3	10.7%
2024	3	10.7%

Which technologies does Bioness Inc. patent most?

A61H - Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body 16

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 14

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 12

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

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 9

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 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B60M - Power Supply Lines, AND Devices Along Rails, FOR Electrically- Propelled Vehicles 1

E01B - Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Bioness Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bioness Inc.'s lead technology class is A61H (Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specifi), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61H
Ranked #10,877 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bioness Inc. against BeBop Sensors, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.3/100 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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