Where does Children's National Medical Center rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Children's National Medical Center ranks #5,148 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 National Medical Center hold?

Children's National Medical Center holds 67 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Children's National Medical Center's Innovation Score?

Children's National Medical Center has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% 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 National Medical Center focus on?

Children's National Medical Center's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 33 patents, ranking #577 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

Is Children's National Medical Center's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Children's National Medical Center's recent grant velocity is +63% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Children's National Medical Center's patents?

Children's National Medical Center's patents average 17.7 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 National Medical Center 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 National Medical Center

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 67 granted patents across 41 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Children's ranks #5,148 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 67 patents across 41 technology areas.

#5,148
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5148 · US Corporation #5,148 · 67 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 67 grants
UPPER-Q #5,148/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arevo
CPC-WIDE A61B · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arevo, 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 57.3 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 14.6 pts (25%) Velocity 9.5 pts (17%) Breadth 22.6 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Elbit Systems · near

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Lummus Technology · near

57
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57
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Children's's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% 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 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 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 National Medical Center is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 49.3% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Children's sits between Arevo, Inc. and De' Longhi Appliances S.R.L. CON Unico Socio.

Children's's three-year grant acceleration

Children's National Medical Center shows 27 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

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What this shows Children's holds 67 patents at rank #5,146, 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 #5,146 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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 A61B (Diagnosis), Children's ranks #577 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Elbit Systems Ltd. 57 National Central University 57 Department OF Veterans Affairs 57 Lummus Technology LLC 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation 17.7 avg X-fab Semiconductor Foundries GMBH 17.7 avg mCube, Inc. 17.7 avg Soft Robotics, Inc. 17.7 avg

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

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Children's National Medical Center patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.0%
2016	3	4.5%
2017	5	7.5%
2018	7	10.4%
2019	7	10.4%
2020	7	10.4%
2021	5	7.5%
2022	10	14.9%
2023	7	10.4%
2024	10	14.9%
2025partial year	4	6.0%

Which technologies does Children's National Medical Center patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 33

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 22

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 14

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 14

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 13

C07K - Peptides 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 4

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 3

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 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 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

Top 15 of 41 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 National Medical Center's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Children's National Medical Center's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 49.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #5,148 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Children's National Medical Center against Arevo, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 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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