Where does Bracco Diagnostics Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bracco Diagnostics Inc. ranks #10,881 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 Bracco Diagnostics Inc. hold?

Bracco Diagnostics Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Bracco Diagnostics Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bracco Diagnostics Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.2 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 Bracco Diagnostics Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bracco Diagnostics Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Bracco Diagnostics Inc.'s patents?

Bracco Diagnostics Inc.'s patents average 21.8 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.

How is the Bracco Diagnostics 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

Bracco Diagnostics Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bracco Diagnostics Inc. focus on?

Bracco Diagnostics Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 25 patents, ranking #287 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 18 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bracco ranks #10,881 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 18 technology areas.

#10,881
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.2/100): 21.8
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10881 · US Corporation #10,881 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,881/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bioness
CPC-FOCUS A61M · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bioness 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 Bracco’s 45.2 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 5.6 pts (12%) Breadth 15.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bracco Diagnostics · this assignee

45
CPI Card Group-color… · near

45
INA Acquisition · near

45
Kent Displays · near

45
Tiger Tool Internati… · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bracco's Innovation Score is 45.2/100 (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 Bracco?

Each dot is one of Bracco’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). Bracco’s own 21.8 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.

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

Where Bracco's grants concentrate

Bracco Diagnostics Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 89.3% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Bracco sits between Bioness Inc. and Carbios.

Bracco's three-year grant acceleration

Bracco Diagnostics Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Bioness

28
Bitvore

28
Blakely Ventures

28
Blue Buffalo Ente…

28
Brose Schliessyst…

28
Canon Electron Tu…

28
Canon Nanotechnol…

28
Carbios

28
Bracco Diagnostics ◀

28

What this shows Bracco holds 28 patents at rank #10,881, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bracco

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,881 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bracco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Bracco ranks #287 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

INA Acquisition Corp. 45 Kent Displays, Inc. 45 CPI Card Group-colorado, Inc. 45 Tiger Tool International Incorporated 45

Bracco'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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Bracco Diagnostics Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	14.3%
2016	3	10.7%
2017	9	32.1%
2018	1	3.6%
2019	2	7.1%
2020	2	7.1%
2021	2	7.1%
2022	1	3.6%
2023	2	7.1%
2024	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Bracco Diagnostics Inc. patent most?

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 25

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 19

G21G - Conversion OF Chemical ELEMENTS; Radioactive Sources 19

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 17

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 16

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 15

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 11

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 8

G21H - Obtaining Energy From Radioactive SOURCES; Applications OF Radiation From Radioactive Sources, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Utilising Cosmic Radiation 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

Top 15 of 18 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

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

Bracco Diagnostics Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 89.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #10,881 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bracco Diagnostics Inc. against Bioness Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.2/100 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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