Where does CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH ranks #5,064 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 CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH hold?

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's Innovation Score?

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH focus on?

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 36 patents, ranking #26 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's recent grant velocity is -39% 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 CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's patents?

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's patents average 18.0 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 CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH 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

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 11 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carefusion ranks #5,064 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 11 technology areas.

#5,064
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5064 · Foreign Corporation #5,064 · 68 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,064/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH British Telecommunic…
CPC-FOCUS B65B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: British Telecommunications PLC (±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 Carefusion’s 39.7 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 14.6 pts (37%) Velocity 2.6 pts (7%) Breadth 11.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CareFusion Germany 326 · this assignee

40
IP Reservoir · near

40
Lisec Austria · near

40
Seattle Genetics · near

40
TRX Systems · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carefusion's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 37% 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 Carefusion?

Each dot is one of Carefusion’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). Carefusion’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Carefusion's grants concentrate

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 52.9% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Carefusion sits between British Telecommunications PLC and Electro Scientific Industries, Inc..

Carefusion's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH moved from 28 to 11 grants (0.39x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

British Telecommu…

68
Cardioinsight

68
Chiyoda

68
Calix

68
China University…

68
Crossroads Extrem…

68
Daimler Truck

68
Electro Scientifi…

68
Carefusion German… ◀

68

What this shows CareFusion holds 68 patents at rank #5,065, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CareFusion

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,065 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CareFusion, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65B (Machines), CareFusion ranks #26 of 1,343 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Seattle Genetics, Inc. 40 IP Reservoir, LLC 40 TRX Systems, Inc. 40 Lisec Austria GMBH 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Storagecraft Technology Corporation 18.0 avg Distech Controls Inc. 18.0 avg ETH ZËRICH 18.0 avg Adama Makhteshim Ltd. 18.0 avg

Carefusion's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% 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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CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.4%
2016	4	5.9%
2017	10	14.7%
2018	10	14.7%
2019	14	20.6%
2020	7	10.3%
2021	7	10.3%
2022	6	8.8%
2023	2	2.9%
2024	3	4.4%
2025partial year	2	2.9%

Which technologies does CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 36

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 33

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 32

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 15

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 10

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 1

Top 11 of 11 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

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH's lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 52.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #5,064 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH against British Telecommunications PLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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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