Where does Brainlab AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brainlab AG ranks #1,058 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 Brainlab AG hold?

Brainlab AG holds 407 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Brainlab AG's Innovation Score?

Brainlab AG has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brainlab AG focus on?

Brainlab AG's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 242 patents, ranking #87 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Brainlab AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brainlab AG's recent grant velocity is -2% 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 Brainlab AG's patents?

Brainlab AG's patents average 14.1 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 Brainlab AG 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

Brainlab AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 407 granted patents across 34 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, Brainlab ranks #1,058 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 407 patents across 34 technology areas.

#1,058
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1058 · Foreign Corporation #1,058 · 407 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 407 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,058/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Electrolux Appliance…
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag (±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 Brainlab’s 56.6 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 20.8 pts (37%) Velocity 6.8 pts (12%) Breadth 20.6 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
PerkinElmer Health… · near

57
Sandvik Intellectual… · near

57
Brainlab · this assignee

57
Latecoere · near

57
Wiz · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brainlab's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 Brainlab?

Each dot is one of Brainlab’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). Brainlab’s own 14.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Brainlab's grants concentrate

Brainlab AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 59.5% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (54 grants) versus a trough of 26 in 2016. By volume, Brainlab sits between Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and AMS AG.

Brainlab's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Brainlab AG moved from 121 to 123 grants (1.02x 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 #1,141. See the growth leaderboard.

Seoul Semiconduct…

410
The Broad Institu…

410
Assa Abloy AB

408
Fluke

408
Electrolux Applia…

407
National Cheng Ku…

407
THE University OF…

407
Brainlab ◀

407
AMS

406

What this shows Brainlab holds 407 patents at rank #1,058, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brainlab

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,058 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Brainlab, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Brainlab ranks #87 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Wiz, Inc. 57 Latecoere 57 Sandvik Intellectual Property AB 57 PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

Arkema Inc. 14.1 avg Airbus Defence AND Space SAS 14.2 avg Basell Polyolefine GmbH 14.2 avg Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie (Paris 6) 14.1 avg

Brainlab's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Brainlab AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	28	6.9%
2016	26	6.4%
2017	35	8.6%
2018	51	12.5%
2019	54	13.3%
2020	38	9.3%
2021	29	7.1%
2022	46	11.3%
2023	33	8.1%
2024	44	10.8%
2025partial year	23	5.7%

Which technologies does Brainlab AG patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 242

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 158

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 110

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 104

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 23

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

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 14

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 10

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 10

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 9

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 6

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 6

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Brainlab AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Brainlab AG's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 59.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,058 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brainlab AG against Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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