Where does Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. ranks #868 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 Holdings, Inc. hold?

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. holds 520 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 92 technology areas.

What is Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.'s patents?

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.'s patents average 19.0 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 Holdings, Inc. 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

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. focus on?

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.'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 435 patents, ranking #14 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 92 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 520 granted patents across 92 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fresenius ranks #868 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 520 patents across 92 technology areas.

#868
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.4/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R868 · US Corporation #868 · 520 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 520 grants
TOP-DECILE #868/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH China Academy OF…
CPC-WIDE A61M · 92 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: China Academy OF Telecommunications Technology (±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 Fresenius’s 65.4 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 21.6 pts (33%) Velocity 7.4 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Columbia Insurance · near

65
Donaldson · near

65
ExxonMobil Chemical… · near

65
Fresenius Medical… · this assignee

65
i4F Licensing · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fresenius's Innovation Score is 65.4/100 (top 1% 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 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 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 Holdings, Inc. received 289 grants versus 193 in 2015–2019 (+50% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 66 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 31. Lead class A61M accounts for 83.7% of the portfolio across 92 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC (#864) and PepsiCo, Inc. (#872).

Fresenius's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. moved from 163 to 180 grants (1.10x 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 #952. See the growth leaderboard.

Transportation IP…

524
ELI Lilly AND

523
United States of…

523
China Academy OF…

520
University of Vir…

520
Fresenius Medical… ◀

520
Micromass UK

519
Open Text ULC

518
Pepsico

518

What this shows Fresenius holds 520 patents at rank #868, 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 #868 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 #14 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. 65 i4F Licensing NV 65 Donaldson Company, Inc. 65 Columbia Insurance Company 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

Amkor Technology Singapore Holding Pte. Ltd. 19.0 avg Climate LLC 19.0 avg Asana, Inc. 19.0 avg University of Maryland 19.0 avg

Fresenius's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Holdings, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	7.1%
2016	31	6.0%
2017	40	7.7%
2018	31	6.0%
2019	54	10.4%
2020	58	11.2%
2021	51	9.8%
2022	66	12.7%
2023	54	10.4%
2024	60	11.5%
2025partial year	38	7.3%

Which technologies does Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. 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 435

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 132

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 79

B01D - Separation 59

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 58

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 48

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 25

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 17

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 16

H04B - Transmission 16

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 16

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 15

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 14

Top 15 of 92 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 Holdings, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.'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), 83.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #868 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. against Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.4/100 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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