Where does Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ranks #3,324 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 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center hold?

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center holds 112 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Innovation Score?

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has an Innovation Score of 46.6 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center focus on?

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 77 patents, ranking #253 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's patents?

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's patents average 18.9 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 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 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

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 112 granted patents across 26 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fred ranks #3,324 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 112 patents across 26 technology areas.

#3,324
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.6/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3324 · US Corporation #3,324 · 112 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 112 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,324/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cambridge Display…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cambridge Display Technology Limited (±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 Fred’s 46.6 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 16.3 pts (35%) Velocity 0.9 pts (2%) Breadth 18.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evernote · near

47
Fred Hutchinson… · this assignee

47
Kyulux · near

47
USG Interiors · near

47
Inteplast Group · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fred's Innovation Score is 46.6/100 (top 20% 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 Fred?

Each dot is one of Fred’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). Fred’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fred's grants concentrate

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 68.8% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (27 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Fred sits between Chroma ATE Inc. and Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd..

Fred's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center moved from 65 to 9 grants (0.14x 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 #3,146. See the growth leaderboard.

Chroma ATE

112
Cambridge Display…

112
Chr Hansen A/S

112
EOS Electro Optic…

112
Global Trademarks

112
Inspire Medical S…

112
International Eng…

112
Kyowa Hakko Kirin

112
Fred Hutchinson C… ◀

112

What this shows Fred holds 112 patents at rank #3,324, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fred

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,324 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fred, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Fred ranks #253 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Evernote Corporation 47 USG Interiors, LLC 47 Kyulux, Inc. 47 Inteplast Group Corporation 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Sonicwall Inc. 18.9 avg Upm-kymmene Corporation 18.9 avg Mitek Systems, Inc. 18.9 avg Red Hat Israel Ltd. 18.9 avg

Fred's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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.

View data table

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	8.0%
2016	5	4.5%
2017	11	9.8%
2018	11	9.8%
2019	19	17.0%
2020	27	24.1%
2021	19	17.0%
2022	4	3.6%
2023	1	0.9%
2024	4	3.6%
2025partial year	2	1.8%

Which technologies does Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 77

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 63

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 61

C07K - Peptides 51

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 25

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 23

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 5

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 3

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

C12Y - Enzymes 3

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 3

Top 15 of 26 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

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 68.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,324 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center against Chroma ATE Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.6/100 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

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