Where does Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou ranks #9,733 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 Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou hold?

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's Innovation Score?

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou has an Innovation Score of 40.6 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou focus on?

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 14 patents, ranking #1,252 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's recent grant velocity is +120% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's patents?

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's patents average 9.9 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 Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou 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

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chang ranks #9,733 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 24 technology areas.

#9,733
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.6/100): 9.9
avg claims per patent: +120%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9733 · Foreign Corporation #9,733 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,733/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canrig Drilling…
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +120% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canrig Drilling Technology 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 Chang’s 40.6 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 12.1 pts (30%) Velocity 5.2 pts (13%) Breadth 17.3 pts (43%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alios Biopharma · near

41
Bretford Manufacturing · near

41
Chang Gung Memorial… · this assignee

41
Flint Group Germany · near

41
GeoFrenzy · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chang's Innovation Score is 40.6/100 (top 35% 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 Chang?

Each dot is one of Chang’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). Chang’s own 9.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Chang's grants concentrate

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 43.8% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Chang sits between CPI Card Group-colorado, Inc. and Convergent Dental, Inc..

Chang's three-year grant acceleration

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

CPI Card Group-co…

32
Canrig Drilling T…

32
Canyon Bicycles

32
Ceres Intellectua…

32
Chime Financial

32
Chipmos

32
Coflex de C V

32
Convergent Dental

32
Chang Gung Memori… ◀

32

What this shows Chang holds 32 patents at rank #9,739, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Chang

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,739 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Chang, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Chang ranks #1,252 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Flint Group Germany GmbH 41 Alios Biopharma, Inc. 41 Bretford Manufacturing, Inc. 41 GeoFrenzy, Inc. 41

Chang's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.1%
2017	3	9.4%
2018	3	9.4%
2019	3	9.4%
2020	5	15.6%
2021	6	18.8%
2022	5	15.6%
2023	2	6.3%
2024	4	12.5%

Which technologies does Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 6

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 4

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

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 2

B62K - CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like 1

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 1

Top 15 of 24 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

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 43.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #9,733 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou against CPI Card Group-colorado, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.6/100 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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