Where does EDAN Instruments, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), EDAN Instruments, Inc. ranks #5,934 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 EDAN Instruments, Inc. hold?

EDAN Instruments, Inc. holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is EDAN Instruments, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

EDAN Instruments, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does EDAN Instruments, Inc. focus on?

EDAN Instruments, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION) with 28 patents. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is EDAN Instruments, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

EDAN Instruments, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -26% 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 EDAN Instruments, Inc.'s patents?

EDAN Instruments, Inc.'s patents average 9.6 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 EDAN Instruments, 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 Foreign Corporation

EDAN Instruments, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 27 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, EDAN ranks #5,934 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 27 technology areas.

#5,934
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 9.6
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5934 · Foreign Corporation #5,934 · 57 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,934/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH DELIFLOR ROYALTIES B V
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 27 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Deliflor Royalties B.v. (±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
Channel Medsystems · near

39
Exelixis · near

39
Ubiome · near

39
EDAN Instruments · this assignee

39
Sentry Solutions Pro… · near

39
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows EDAN Instruments, Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #5,934 of 50,000; Innovation Score 39.3/100 sits in the top 38% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Deliflor Royalties B.v. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

EDAN Instruments, Inc. has been granted 57 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing EDAN Instruments, Inc. at #5,934 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 27 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 9.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION). As a Foreign Corporation, EDAN Instruments, Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, EDAN sits between Deliflor Royalties B.v. (57 patents, rank #5,930) and FACE International Corporaton (57 patents, rank #5,938) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 39.3/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 23 grants, compared with 31 in the 2015–2019 window, a -26% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. EDAN Instruments, Inc.'s 9.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 27 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Deliflor Royaltie…

57
Dinkle Electric M…

57
Doosan

57
Dentsply IH AB

57
ETEL

57
Efficient Power C…

57
Eyelock

57
FACE Internationa…

57
EDAN Instruments ◀

57

What this shows EDAN holds 57 patents at rank #5,934, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near EDAN

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,934 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Sentry Solutions Products Group Llc 39 Ubiome, Inc. 39 Exelixis, Inc. 39 Channel Medsystems, Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.6 here).

JGC Corporation 9.6 avg Jilin University 9.6 avg Kureha Corporation 9.6 avg Rohm And Haas Company 9.6 avg

EDAN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 50,000 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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EDAN Instruments, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	8	14.0%
2017	6	10.5%
2018	13	22.8%
2019	4	7.0%
2020	12	21.1%
2021	7	12.3%
2022	1	1.8%
2023	2	3.5%
2024	1	1.8%
2025partial year	3	5.3%

Which technologies does EDAN Instruments, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 28

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 7

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 6

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 6

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 5

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 4

G10K - SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 3

H01R - ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS 3

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 2

F01L - CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES 2

B06B - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY, ; e.g.; FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL 2

H04Q - SELECTING 2

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 1

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 1

Top 15 of 27 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,934

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.3 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

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