Where does Elekta AB (publ) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Elekta AB (publ) ranks #4,509 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 Elekta AB (publ) hold?

Elekta AB (publ) holds 78 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Elekta AB (publ)'s Innovation Score?

Elekta AB (publ) has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Elekta AB (publ)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Elekta AB (publ)'s recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Elekta AB (publ)'s patents?

Elekta AB (publ)'s patents average 17.4 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 Elekta AB (publ) 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

Elekta AB (publ)

Q: What technology areas does Elekta AB (publ) focus on?

Elekta AB (publ)'s top technology area is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy) with 65 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 78 granted patents across 17 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: A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Elekta ranks #4,509 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 78 patents across 17 technology areas.

#4,509
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4509 · Foreign Corporation #4,509 · 78 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 78 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,509/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Basso Industry
CPC-FOCUS A61N · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Basso Industry Corp. (±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
BD Kiestra B V · near

42
Elekta AB (publ) · this assignee

42
F Hoffmann-La Roche · near

42
Hyperconnect · near

42
LivaNova USA · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Elekta's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Elekta's grants concentrate

Elekta AB (publ) is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Elekta sits between Basso Industry Corp. and Garmin International, Inc..

Elekta's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Elekta AB (publ) moved from 24 to 6 grants (0.25x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Basso Industry

78
Bender & KG

78
Curt G Joa

78
EberspÄCHER Clima…

78
Fairchild Korea S…

78
Forage Genetics I…

78
Gaztransport ET T…

78
Garmin Internatio…

78
Elekta AB (publ) ◀

78

What this shows Elekta holds 78 patents at rank #4,509, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Elekta

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,509 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61N (Electrotherapy)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

LivaNova USA, Inc. 42 Hyperconnect LLC 42 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG 42 BD Kiestra B.V. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation 17.4 avg NewSouth Innovations Pty Limited 17.4 avg Unisys Corporation 17.4 avg MedImmune Limited 17.4 avg

Elekta's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Elekta AB (publ) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	11.5%
2016	13	16.7%
2017	13	16.7%
2018	10	12.8%
2019	8	10.3%
2020	8	10.3%
2021	8	10.3%
2022	2	2.6%
2023	2	2.6%
2024	2	2.6%
2025partial year	3	3.8%

Which technologies does Elekta AB (publ) patent most?

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 65

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 24

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 10

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

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 1

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 1

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,509

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.8 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

Elekta AB (publ)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Elekta AB (publ)'s lead technology class is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61N
Ranked #4,509 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Elekta AB (publ) against Basso Industry Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.