Where does Flamel Ireland Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Flamel Ireland Limited ranks #6,330 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 Flamel Ireland Limited hold?

Flamel Ireland Limited holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Flamel Ireland Limited's Innovation Score?

Flamel Ireland Limited has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Flamel Ireland Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Flamel Ireland Limited's recent grant velocity is +267% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Flamel Ireland Limited's patents?

Flamel Ireland Limited's patents average 26.8 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 Flamel Ireland Limited 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

Flamel Ireland Limited

Q: What technology areas does Flamel Ireland Limited focus on?

Flamel Ireland Limited's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 49 patents. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Flamel ranks #6,330 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 2 technology areas.

#6,330
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 26.8
avg claims per patent: +267%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6330 · Foreign Corporation #6,330 · 53 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,330/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ent Services…
CPC-NARROW A61K · 2 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +267% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ent. Services Development Corporation LP (±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
5 11 · near

50
Alpla Werke Alwin… · near

50
Flamel Ireland · this assignee

50
Voestalpine Stahl · near

50
Walter · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Flamel's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Flamel's grants concentrate

Flamel Ireland Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 92.5% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Flamel sits between Ent. Services Development Corporation LP and Guangzhou Shiyuan Electronic Technology Company Limited.

Flamel's three-year grant acceleration

Flamel Ireland Limited shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Ent Services Deve…

53
European Molecula…

53
Foshan Shunde Mid…

53
Fuzhou University

53
Greenlee Tools

53
Gilead Pharmasset

53
Gree Green Refrig…

53
Guangzhou Shiyuan…

53
Flamel Ireland ◀

53

What this shows Flamel holds 53 patents at rank #6,331, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Flamel

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,331 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Voestalpine Stahl GmbH 50 Walter AG 50 Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG 50 5.11, Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (26.8 here).

NCH Corporation 26.8 avg CureVac SE 26.8 avg Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. 26.9 avg Electro Industries/Gauge Tech 26.7 avg

Flamel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Flamel Ireland Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	3.8%
2018	5	9.4%
2019	2	3.8%
2020	2	3.8%
2021	6	11.3%
2022	2	3.8%
2023	7	13.2%
2024	16	30.2%
2025partial year	11	20.8%

Which technologies does Flamel Ireland Limited patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 49

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 33

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,330

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.5 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

Flamel Ireland Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Flamel Ireland Limited's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 92.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #6,330 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Flamel Ireland Limited against Ent. Services Development Corporation LP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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.