Where does Gauss Surgical Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gauss Surgical Inc. ranks #8,206 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 Gauss Surgical Inc. hold?

Gauss Surgical Inc. holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Gauss Surgical Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gauss Surgical Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.4 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%).

What technology areas does Gauss Surgical Inc. focus on?

Gauss Surgical Inc.'s top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 32 patents, ranking #466 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gauss Surgical Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gauss Surgical Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gauss Surgical Inc.'s patents?

Gauss Surgical Inc.'s patents average 22.7 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 Gauss Surgical 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

Gauss Surgical Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gauss ranks #8,206 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 17 technology areas.

#8,206
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.4/100): 22.7
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8206 · US Corporation #8,206 · 39 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,206/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gen9
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gen9, Inc. (±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 Gauss’s 50.4 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 12.7 pts (25%) Velocity 9.4 pts (19%) Breadth 14.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 13.6 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Everlast Climbing… · near

50
Fundacion Tecnalia… · near

50
Gauss Surgical · this assignee

50
Office Kick · near

50
Soremartec · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gauss's Innovation Score is 50.4/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Gauss?

Each dot is one of Gauss’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). Gauss’s own 22.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Gauss's grants concentrate

Gauss Surgical Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 82.1% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Gauss sits between GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH and Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc..

Gauss's three-year grant acceleration

Gauss Surgical Inc. shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

GKN Sinter Metals…

39
Gloriole Electrop…

39
Grirem Advanced M…

39
GW Pharma

39
Gen9

39
Goodrich Lighting…

39
Gooee

39
Guill Tool & Engi…

39
Gauss Surgical ◀

39

What this shows Gauss holds 39 patents at rank #8,211, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gauss

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,211 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gauss, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Gauss ranks #466 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation 50 Soremartec S.A. 50 Office Kick, Inc. 50 Everlast Climbing Industries, Inc. 50

Gauss'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 · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Gauss Surgical Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.7%
2017	5	12.8%
2018	2	5.1%
2019	3	7.7%
2020	6	15.4%
2021	3	7.7%
2022	6	15.4%
2023	8	20.5%
2024	3	7.7%

Which technologies does Gauss Surgical Inc. patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 32

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 28

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 15

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 13

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 10

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 5

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 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

G01G - Weighing 3

Top 15 of 17 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

Gauss Surgical Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gauss Surgical Inc.'s lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 82.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #8,206 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gauss Surgical Inc. against GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.4/100 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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