Where does Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing ranks #22,479 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing hold?

Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing's Innovation Score?

Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing has an Innovation Score of 19.7 out of 100 (top 94% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing's patents?

Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing's patents average 6.3 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 Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing 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

Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing

Q: What technology areas does Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing focus on?

Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing's top technology area is A61G (TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS ; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: A61G (TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS ; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Drive ranks #22,479 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 4 technology areas.

#22,479
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 94%
by Innovation Score (19.7/100): 6.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22479 · US Corporation #22,479 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,479/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Domino's IP Holder
CPC-NARROW A61G · 4 areas
INNOV-LOW 19.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Domino's IP Holder Llc (±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
Drive Medical Design… · this assignee

20
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Drive's Innovation Score is 19.7/100 (top 94% 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 Drive's grants concentrate

Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 41.7% of grants classified under A61G (TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS ; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2015. By volume, Drive sits between Domino's IP Holder Llc and Dyomics Gmbh.

Domino's IP Holder

12
Dongfang Jingyuan…

12
Dorai Home

12
Dragonfly Energy

12
Dual Aperture Int…

12
Dynalloy

12
Dynasol Elastómer…

12
Dyomics

12
Drive Medical Des… ◀

12

What this shows Drive holds 12 patents at rank #22,485, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Drive

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,485 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61G (Transport)

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

Drive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

20 Top 94% higher than 6% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	41.7%
2016	7	58.3%

Which technologies does Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing patent most?

A61G - TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS ; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES 5

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS 3

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

A61H - PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,479

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

19.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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