Where does Cook Medical Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cook Medical Technologies LLC ranks #323 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 Cook Medical Technologies LLC hold?

Cook Medical Technologies LLC holds 1,327 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is Cook Medical Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Cook Medical Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 62.4 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 Cook Medical Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cook Medical Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is -69% 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 Cook Medical Technologies LLC's patents?

Cook Medical Technologies LLC'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 Cook Medical Technologies 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

Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Q: What technology areas does Cook Medical Technologies LLC focus on?

Cook Medical Technologies LLC's top technology area is 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) with 700 patents. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,327 granted patents across 88 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: 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 Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cook ranks #323 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,327 patents across 88 technology areas.

#323
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.4/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R323 · US Corporation #323 · 1,327 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #323/49,997
NEAR-PEER Avago General IP…
CPC-WIDE A61F · 88 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (±6 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
Google Technology… · near

62
Otsuka Pharmaceutical · near

62
Spreadtrum Communica… · near

62
Canon U · near

62
Cook Medical · this assignee

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cook's Innovation Score is 62.4/100 (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.

How Cook's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cook Medical Technologies LLC received 307 grants versus 997 in 2015–2019 (-69% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 215 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 33. Lead class A61F accounts for 52.8% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd. (#319) and Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited (#327).

Cook's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cook Medical Technologies LLC moved from 360 to 124 grants (0.34x 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 #2,946. See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Bytedance…

1,348
Sanofi-aventis De…

1,348
Harman Internatio…

1,341
Kubota

1,340
Cook Medical ◀

1,327
Avago General IP…

1,321
Otis Elevator

1,319
Salesforce

1,318
Aristocrat Austra…

1,316

What this shows Cook holds 1,327 patents at rank #323, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cook

By rank, the assignees closest to #323 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Canon U.S.A., Inc. 62 Google Technology Holdings LLC 62 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 62 Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Naver Corporation 17.1 avg STC.UNM 17.1 avg Angel Co., Ltd. 17.1 avg GRÜNENTHAL GMBH 17.1 avg

Cook's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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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Cook Medical Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	215	16.2%
2016	209	15.7%
2017	189	14.2%
2018	207	15.6%
2019	177	13.3%
2020	114	8.6%
2021	69	5.2%
2022	58	4.4%
2023	33	2.5%
2024	33	2.5%
2025partial year	23	1.7%

Which technologies does Cook Medical Technologies LLC patent most?

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 700

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 550

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 409

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 95

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 65

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 29

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 23

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 21

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 17

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 16

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 15

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 15

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 14

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 12

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 10

Top 15 of 88 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#323

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.4 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

Cook Medical Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cook Medical Technologies LLC's lead technology class is 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 Device), 52.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #323 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cook Medical Technologies LLC against Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.4/100 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.

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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

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