Where does Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited ranks #3,447 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 Medical Device Limited hold?

Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited holds 107 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited's Innovation Score?

Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited has an Innovation Score of 62.9 out of 100 (top 2% 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 Medical Device Limited focus on?

Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 96 patents, ranking #190 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited's patents?

Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited's patents average 16.8 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited

Q: How is the Boston Scientific Medical Device 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 PatentsView assignee record - 107 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Boston ranks #3,447 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 107 patents across 22 technology areas.

#3,447
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.9/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3447 · Foreign Corporation #3,447 · 107 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 107 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,447/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AmTRAN Technology
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 22 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 62.9 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 16.2 pts (26%) Velocity 20.0 pts (32%) Breadth 16.6 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wangs Alliance · near

63
Boston Scientific… · this assignee

63
C R Bard · near

63
SK ie technology · near

63
Shanghai Langbo… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Boston's Innovation Score is 62.9/100 (top 2% 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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 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 Medical Device Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 89.7% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (48 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Boston sits between AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. and Elbit Systems Ltd..

Boston's three-year grant acceleration

Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited shows 66 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Amtran Technology

107
Aurora Labs

107
BCE

107
Bestop

107
Costa Del Mar

107
Cylance

107
Diebold Nixdorf I…

107
Elbit Systems

107
Boston Scientific… ◀

107

What this shows Boston holds 107 patents at rank #3,447, 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 #3,447 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 #190 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

SK ie technology Co., Ltd. 63 C.R. Bard, Inc. 63 Wangs Alliance Corporation 63 Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Adva Optical Networking SE 16.8 avg Dana Canada Corporation 16.8 avg Savant Technologies LLC 16.8 avg Itrec B.V. 16.8 avg

Boston's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	4	3.7%
2023	14	13.1%
2024	48	44.9%
2025partial year	41	38.3%

Which technologies does Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 96

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 43

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 6

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

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 5

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 4

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 3

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 3

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 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 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 15 of 22 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 Medical Device Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 89.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #3,447 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited against AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.