Where does Children's Hospital Los Angeles rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Children's Hospital Los Angeles ranks #8,999 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles hold?

Children's Hospital Los Angeles holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Children's Hospital Los Angeles's Innovation Score?

Children's Hospital Los Angeles has an Innovation Score of 50.6 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Children's Hospital Los Angeles focus on?

Children's Hospital Los Angeles's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 18 patents, ranking #1,261 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Children's Hospital Los Angeles's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Children's Hospital Los Angeles's recent grant velocity is +20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Children's Hospital Los Angeles's patents?

Children's Hospital Los Angeles's patents average 17.1 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles 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

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 26 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Children's ranks #8,999 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 26 technology areas.

#8,999
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8999 · US Corporation #8,999 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #8,999/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carlsmed
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carlsmed, Inc. (±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 Children's’s 50.6 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 12.4 pts (25%) Velocity 10.0 pts (20%) Breadth 18.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abaxx · near

51
Children's Hospital… · this assignee

51
o9 Solutions · near

51
Reach Power · near

51
VIA Alliance… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Children's's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (top 13% 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 Children's?

Each dot is one of Children's’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). Children's’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Children's's grants concentrate

Children's Hospital Los Angeles is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 51.4% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Children's sits between Cnrs-centre National DE LA Recherche Scientifique and Click Therapeutics, Inc..

Children's's three-year grant acceleration

Children's Hospital Los Angeles shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Cnrs-centre Natio…

35
Code Systems

35
Corvia Medical

35
Carlsmed

35
China Energy Inve…

35
Cista System

35
Clarkwestern Diet…

35
Click Therapeutics

35
Children's Hospit… ◀

35

What this shows Children's holds 35 patents at rank #9,005, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Children's

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,005 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Children's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Children's ranks #1,261 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

o9 Solutions, Inc. 51 VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 51 Reach Power, Inc. 51 Abaxx Technologies Corp. 51

Children's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% 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.

View data table

Children's Hospital Los Angeles patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	11.4%
2016	3	8.6%
2017	3	8.6%
2018	3	8.6%
2019	2	5.7%
2020	3	8.6%
2021	3	8.6%
2022	4	11.4%
2023	3	8.6%
2024	5	14.3%
2025partial year	2	5.7%

Which technologies does Children's Hospital Los Angeles patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 18

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 13

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 8

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

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 4

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 4

C07K - Peptides 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

Top 15 of 26 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

Children's Hospital Los Angeles's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 51.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #8,999 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Children's Hospital Los Angeles against Cnrs-centre National DE LA Recherche Scientifique, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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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