Where does Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH ranks #743 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 Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH hold?

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH holds 615 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 125 technology areas.

What is Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 63.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's patents?

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's patents average 16.1 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 Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH 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

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH focus on?

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's top technology area is 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) with 539 patents, ranking #12 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 125 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 615 granted patents across 125 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: 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fresenius ranks #743 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 615 patents across 125 technology areas.

#743
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.2/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R743 · Foreign Corporation #743 · 615 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 615 grants
TOP-DECILE #743/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bell Helicopter…
CPC-WIDE A61M · 125 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (±1 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 Fresenius’s 63.2 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 22.2 pts (35%) Velocity 6.3 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abb Vie · near

63
Augustine Biomedical… · near

63
Dana Heavy Vehicle… · near

63
Fresenius Medical… · this assignee

63
Korea Institute OF… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fresenius's Innovation Score is 63.2/100 (top 2% 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 Fresenius?

Each dot is one of Fresenius’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). Fresenius’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Fresenius's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH received 276 grants versus 297 in 2015–2019 (-7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 67 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 37. Lead class A61M accounts for 87.6% of the portfolio across 125 subclasses. Volume neighbours: InvenSense, Inc. (#739) and Spectrum Brands, Inc. (#747).

Fresenius's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH moved from 176 to 167 grants (0.95x 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 #1,322. See the growth leaderboard.

Invensense

617
Bell Helicopter T…

616
Suzuki Motor

616
Uchicago Argonne

616
Fresenius Medical… ◀

615
Dexerials

614
Allergan

612
Ford Motor

612
Spectrum Brands

612

What this shows Fresenius holds 615 patents at rank #743, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fresenius

By rank, the assignees closest to #743 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fresenius, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Fresenius ranks #12 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology 63 Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC 63 Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC 63 Abb Vie Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Lennox Industries Inc. 16.1 avg Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. 16.1 avg Faro Technologies, Inc. 16.1 avg United Technologies Corporation 16.1 avg

Fresenius's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	46	7.5%
2016	65	10.6%
2017	67	10.9%
2018	52	8.5%
2019	67	10.9%
2020	60	9.8%
2021	49	8.0%
2022	63	10.2%
2023	37	6.0%
2024	67	10.9%
2025partial year	42	6.8%

Which technologies does Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH patent most?

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 539

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 78

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 72

B01D - Separation 62

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 37

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 37

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 30

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 29

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 27

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 20

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 19

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 14

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 13

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

Top 15 of 125 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

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is 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), 87.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #743 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH against InvenSense, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.2/100 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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