Where does Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC ranks #4,281 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 Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC hold?

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's Innovation Score?

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC focus on?

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 48 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's patents?

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's patents average 18.6 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 Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC 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

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Change ranks #4,281 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 17 technology areas.

#4,281
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4281 · US Corporation #4,281 · 83 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,281/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Research…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Research Institute OF Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ixblue · near

46
Change Healthcare… · this assignee

46
Global Plasma… · near

46
Moresco · near

46
Recaro Aircraft… · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Change's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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.

Where Change's grants concentrate

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 57.8% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (18 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2020. By volume, Change sits between Beijing Research Institute OF Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation and Cornell Research Foundation, Inc..

Change's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC moved from 30 to 22 grants (0.73x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Research…

83
Bell Textron

83
Benq Materials

83
Brien Holden Visi…

83
Cipla

83
Clemson University

83
Commscope Connect…

83
Cornell Research…

83
Change Healthcare… ◀

83

What this shows Change holds 83 patents at rank #4,281, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Change

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,281 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Change, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG 46 Global Plasma Solutions, Inc. 46 Moresco Corporation 46 Ixblue 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Acres Technology 18.6 avg Tango Networks, Inc. 18.6 avg Hubei Yangtze Industrial Innovation Center Of Advanced Display Co., Ltd. 18.6 avg Sigma Computing, Inc. 18.6 avg

Change's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	13	15.7%
2018	10	12.0%
2019	18	21.7%
2020	5	6.0%
2021	7	8.4%
2022	7	8.4%
2023	6	7.2%
2024	9	10.8%
2025partial year	8	9.6%

Which technologies does Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 48

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 42

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 20

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,281

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 57.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,281 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC against Beijing Research Institute OF Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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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