Where does Boston Scientific Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Boston Scientific Limited ranks #3,366 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 Boston Scientific Limited hold?

Boston Scientific Limited holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Boston Scientific Limited's Innovation Score?

Boston Scientific Limited has an Innovation Score of 45.7 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Boston Scientific Limited focus on?

Boston Scientific Limited's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 74 patents, ranking #244 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Boston Scientific Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Boston Scientific Limited's recent grant velocity is +43% 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 Boston Scientific Limited's patents?

Boston Scientific Limited's patents average 17.3 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 Boston Scientific Limited 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

Boston Scientific Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 16 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Boston ranks #3,366 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 16 technology areas.

#3,366
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.7/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3366 · Foreign Corporation #3,366 · 110 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,366/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Albert-Ludwigs-Unive…
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (±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 Boston’s 45.7 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 16.3 pts (36%) Velocity 4.9 pts (11%) Breadth 14.1 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asahi Kasei… · near

46
Boston Scientific · this assignee

46
Shockwave Medical · near

46
Stant USA · near

46
Ultradent Products · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Boston's Innovation Score is 45.7/100 (top 23% 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 Boston?

Each dot is one of Boston’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). Boston’s own 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Boston's grants concentrate

Boston Scientific Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 67.3% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (18 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Boston sits between University of Science and Technology Beijing and Enza Zaden Beheer B.V..

Boston's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Boston Scientific Limited moved from 38 to 28 grants (0.74x 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 #2,029. See the growth leaderboard.

University of Sci…

111
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111
Vornado Air

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Albert-ludwigs-un…

110
Centre Hospitalie…

110
Cepheid

110
Educational Testi…

110
Enza Zaden Beheer…

110
Boston Scientific ◀

110

What this shows Boston holds 110 patents at rank #3,366, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Boston

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,366 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Boston, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Boston ranks #244 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Shockwave Medical, Inc. 46 Ultradent Products, Inc. 46 Asahi Kasei E-materials Corporation 46 Stant USA Corp. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. 17.3 avg Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd. 17.3 avg Staton Techiya LLC 17.3 avg Smith & Nephew PLC 17.3 avg

Boston's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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Boston Scientific Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	11.8%
2016	4	3.6%
2017	10	9.1%
2018	9	8.2%
2019	6	5.5%
2020	18	16.4%
2021	14	12.7%
2022	11	10.0%
2023	14	12.7%
2024	3	2.7%
2025partial year	8	7.3%

Which technologies does Boston Scientific Limited patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 74

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 65

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 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 6

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 4

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 3

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

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

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Boston Scientific Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Boston Scientific Limited's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 67.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #3,366 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Boston Scientific Limited against University of Science and Technology Beijing, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.7/100 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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