Where does ELI Lilly AND Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ELI Lilly AND Company ranks #865 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 ELI Lilly AND Company hold?

ELI Lilly AND Company holds 523 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is ELI Lilly AND Company's Innovation Score?

ELI Lilly AND Company has an Innovation Score of 59.7 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%).

Is ELI Lilly AND Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ELI Lilly AND Company's recent grant velocity is +34% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for ELI Lilly AND Company's patents?

ELI Lilly AND Company's patents average 13.3 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 ELI Lilly AND Company 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

ELI Lilly AND Company

Q: What technology areas does ELI Lilly AND Company focus on?

ELI Lilly AND Company's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 320 patents. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 523 granted patents across 38 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, ELI ranks #865 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 523 patents across 38 technology areas.

#865
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R865 · US Corporation #865 · 523 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 523 grants
TOP-DECILE #865/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH United States of…
CPC-FOCUS A61P · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +34% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (±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
Assa Abloy Americas… · near

60
China Tobacco Hunan… · near

60
ELI Lilly AND · this assignee

60
Graphcore · near

60
Holcim Technology · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows ELI's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (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.

Where ELI's grants concentrate

ELI Lilly AND Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 61.2% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (62 grants) versus a trough of 35 in 2017. By volume, ELI sits between Lyft, Inc. and University of Virginia Patent Foundation.

ELI's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ELI Lilly AND Company moved from 137 to 170 grants (1.24x 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 #721. See the growth leaderboard.

Lyft

526
Xiaomi

526
Echostar L L C

525
Transportation IP…

524
United States of…

523
ELI Lilly AND ◀

523
China Academy OF…

520
Fresenius Medical…

520
University of Vir…

520

What this shows ELI holds 523 patents at rank #865, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ELI

By rank, the assignees closest to #865 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Graphcore Limited 60 Assa Abloy Americas Residential Inc. 60 Holcim Technology Ltd 60 China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co., Ltd. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

Plantronics, Inc. 13.3 avg Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Ltd. 13.3 avg Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. 13.3 avg Dalian Institute OF Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 13.3 avg

ELI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 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 · 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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ELI Lilly AND Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	43	8.2%
2016	42	8.0%
2017	35	6.7%
2018	41	7.8%
2019	39	7.5%
2020	45	8.6%
2021	53	10.1%
2022	56	10.7%
2023	52	9.9%
2024	62	11.9%
2025partial year	55	10.5%

Which technologies does ELI Lilly AND Company patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 320

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 234

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 176

C07K - Peptides 139

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 99

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 29

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 19

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 14

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 12

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 10

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 10

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 6

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 5

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 5

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

Top 15 of 38 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#865

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.7 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

ELI Lilly AND Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ELI Lilly AND Company's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 61.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #865 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ELI Lilly AND Company against Lyft, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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.