Where does Cerner Innovation, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cerner Innovation, Inc. ranks #642 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 Cerner Innovation, Inc. hold?

Cerner Innovation, Inc. holds 695 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cerner Innovation, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.3 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%).

Is Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +110% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s patents?

Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Cerner Innovation, 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

Cerner Innovation, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Cerner Innovation, Inc. focus on?

Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s top technology area is G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data) with 500 patents, ranking #3 of 3,149 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 695 granted patents across 36 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: G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cerner ranks #642 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 695 patents across 36 technology areas.

#642
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.3/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +110%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R642 · US Corporation #642 · 695 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 695 grants
TOP-DECILE #642/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CenturyLink…
CPC-FOCUS G16H · 36 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +110% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (±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 Cerner’s 63.3 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 22.6 pts (36%) Velocity 8.1 pts (13%) Breadth 21.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intel IP · near

63
Nanjing University · near

63
Terrapower · near

63
Cerner Innovation · this assignee

63
Japan Aviation… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cerner's Innovation Score is 63.3/100 (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 Cerner?

Each dot is one of Cerner’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). Cerner’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cerner's grants concentrate

Cerner Innovation, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 71.9% of grants classified under G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (105 grants) versus a trough of 20 in 2016. By volume, Cerner sits between Lite-on Technology Corporation and Schneider Electric Industries SAS.

Cerner's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cerner Innovation, Inc. moved from 239 to 292 grants (1.22x 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 #755. See the growth leaderboard.

Lite-on Technology

699
Rutgers the State…

698
Arizona Board of…

696
Centurylink Intel…

695
Cerner Innovation ◀

695
Callaway Golf

694
Cameron Internati…

692
Posco

691
Schneider Electri…

691

What this shows Cerner holds 695 patents at rank #642, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cerner

By rank, the assignees closest to #642 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G16H (Healthcare Informatics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cerner, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G16H (Healthcare Informatics), Cerner ranks #3 of 3,149 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited 63 Intel IP Corporation 63 Nanjing University 63 Terrapower, LLC 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. 18.9 avg Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. 18.9 avg Lytx, Inc. 18.9 avg Abbyy Production LLC 18.9 avg

Cerner'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 · 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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Cerner Innovation, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	3.5%
2016	20	2.9%
2017	38	5.5%
2018	42	6.0%
2019	87	12.5%
2020	81	11.7%
2021	71	10.2%
2022	99	14.2%
2023	105	15.1%
2024	88	12.7%
2025partial year	40	5.8%

Which technologies does Cerner Innovation, Inc. patent most?

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 500

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 296

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 161

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 110

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 75

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 65

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 61

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 57

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 53

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 49

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 40

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 35

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 25

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 24

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 19

Top 15 of 36 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

Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cerner Innovation, Inc.'s lead technology class is G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data), 71.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G16H
Ranked #642 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cerner Innovation, Inc. against Lite-on Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.3/100 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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