Where does Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) ranks #986 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 Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) hold?

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) holds 446 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 203 technology areas.

What is Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s Innovation Score?

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) has an Innovation Score of 60.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) focus on?

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 80 patents, ranking #230 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 203 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s patents?

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s patents average 16.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)

Q: How is the Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) 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 PatentsView assignee record - 446 granted patents across 203 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, Ecole ranks #986 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 446 patents across 203 technology areas.

#986
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.9/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R986 · Foreign Corporation #986 · 446 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 446 grants
TOP-DECILE #986/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH RAI Strategic Holdings
CPC-BROAD A61B · 203 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: RAI Strategic Holdings, 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 Ecole’s 60.9 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 21.1 pts (35%) Velocity 4.8 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Ecole Polytechnique… · this assignee

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61
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Ecole's Innovation Score is 60.9/100 (top 3% 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 Ecole?

Each dot is one of Ecole’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). Ecole’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ecole's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) received 201 grants versus 217 in 2015–2019 (-7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 57 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 30. Lead class A61B accounts for 17.9% of the portfolio across 203 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Schneider Electric USA, Inc. (#982) and Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. (#990).

Ecole's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) moved from 150 to 108 grants (0.72x 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 #2,087. See the growth leaderboard.

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445

What this shows Ecole holds 446 patents at rank #986, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ecole

By rank, the assignees closest to #986 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ecole, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Ecole ranks #230 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, LLC 61 Frontier Communications Holdings, LLC 61 Ivoclar Vivadent AG 61 THE Chemours Company FC, LLC 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

THE Johns Hopkins University 16.7 avg Utopus Insights, Inc. 16.7 avg Invensys Systems, Inc. 16.7 avg Titan3 Technology LLC 16.7 avg

Ecole's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	6.7%
2016	43	9.6%
2017	51	11.4%
2018	36	8.1%
2019	57	12.8%
2020	42	9.4%
2021	51	11.4%
2022	38	8.5%
2023	39	8.7%
2024	31	7.0%
2025partial year	28	6.3%

Which technologies does Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 80

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 54

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 49

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 47

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 42

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 35

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 34

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 27

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 25

C07K - Peptides 21

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 21

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 21

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 21

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 20

Top 15 of 203 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

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL)'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 17.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #986 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) against Schneider Electric USA, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.9/100 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

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