Where does Dentsply Sirona Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dentsply Sirona Inc. ranks #1,142 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 Dentsply Sirona Inc. hold?

Dentsply Sirona Inc. holds 370 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Dentsply Sirona Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.4 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dentsply Sirona Inc. focus on?

Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s top technology area is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene) with 220 patents, ranking #4 of 546 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +87% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s patents?

Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s patents average 13.2 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 Dentsply Sirona Inc. 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

Dentsply Sirona Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 370 granted patents across 85 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dentsply ranks #1,142 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 370 patents across 85 technology areas.

#1,142
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.4/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: +87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1142 · US Corporation #1,142 · 370 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 370 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,142/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ball Horticultural
CPC-WIDE A61C · 85 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ball Horticultural Company (±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 Dentsply’s 58.4 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 20.4 pts (35%) Velocity 5.1 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AGP America · near

58
Dentsply Sirona · this assignee

58
Faiveley Transport… · near

58
Fujifilm Materials U · near

58
MacDonald Dettwiler… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dentsply's Innovation Score is 58.4/100 (top 4% 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 Dentsply?

Each dot is one of Dentsply’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). Dentsply’s own 13.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Dentsply's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dentsply Sirona Inc. received 221 grants versus 118 in 2015–2019 (+87% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 55 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 2. Lead class A61C accounts for 59.5% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Puma SE (#1,138) and Welch Allyn, Inc. (#1,146).

Dentsply's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dentsply Sirona Inc. moved from 157 to 119 grants (0.76x 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 #1,965. See the growth leaderboard.

Puma SE

371
The Curators of t…

371
Ventana Medical S…

371
Ball Horticultural

370
Eagle Industry

370
Ivoclar Vivadent

370
Jatco

370
Welch Allyn

370
Dentsply Sirona ◀

370

What this shows Dentsply holds 370 patents at rank #1,142, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dentsply

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,142 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61C (Dentistry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dentsply, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61C (Dentistry), Dentsply ranks #4 of 546 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Fujifilm Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc. 58 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc. 58 Faiveley Transport Italia S.P.A. 58 AGP America S.A. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Firmenich SA 13.2 avg Casio Computer Co., Ltd. 13.2 avg SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. 13.2 avg Namics Corporation 13.2 avg

Dentsply's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Dentsply Sirona Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	0.5%
2017	14	3.8%
2018	47	12.7%
2019	55	14.9%
2020	49	13.2%
2021	53	14.3%
2022	44	11.9%
2023	31	8.4%
2024	44	11.9%
2025partial year	31	8.4%

Which technologies does Dentsply Sirona Inc. patent most?

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 220

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 88

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 85

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 55

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 33

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 29

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 28

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 25

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 19

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 16

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 15

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 12

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 11

Top 15 of 85 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

Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dentsply Sirona Inc.'s lead technology class is A61C (DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene), 59.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61C
Ranked #1,142 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dentsply Sirona Inc. against Puma SE, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.4/100 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.

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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