Where does Gauthier Biomedical, Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gauthier Biomedical, Inc ranks #6,653 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 Gauthier Biomedical, Inc hold?

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Gauthier Biomedical, Inc's Innovation Score?

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc has an Innovation Score of 34.8 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gauthier Biomedical, Inc focus on?

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc's top technology area is B25G (Handles FOR Hand Implements) with 13 patents, ranking #6 of 231 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gauthier Biomedical, Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc'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 Gauthier Biomedical, Inc's patents?

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc's patents average 5.5 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 Gauthier Biomedical, 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

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 14 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: B25G (Handles FOR Hand Implements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gauthier ranks #6,653 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 14 technology areas.

#6,653
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.8/100): 5.5
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6653 · US Corporation #6,653 · 50 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,653/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gema Switzerland
CPC-FOCUS B25G · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gema Switzerland GMBH (±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 Gauthier’s 34.8 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 13.6 pts (39%) Velocity 4.7 pts (14%) Breadth 13.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 3.3 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gauthier Biomedical · this assignee

35
Lentigen Technology · near

35
Mauser Werke · near

35
Shenzhen Antop… · near

35
Sunland Information… · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gauthier's Innovation Score is 34.8/100 (49th percentile 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 Gauthier?

Each dot is one of Gauthier’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). Gauthier’s own 5.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Gauthier's grants concentrate

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 26% of grants classified under B25G (Handles FOR Hand Implements). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Gauthier sits between Gema Switzerland GMBH and Hoffman Enclosures Inc..

Gauthier's three-year grant acceleration

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Gema Switzerland

50
Guangzhou Institu…

50
Gustav Klauke

50
Gyrfalcon Technol…

50
Guidewire Software

50
Halozyme

50
Hitachi Industry…

50
Hoffman Enclosures

50
Gauthier Biomedic… ◀

50

What this shows Gauthier holds 50 patents at rank #6,657, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gauthier

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,657 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25G (Handles FOR Hand Implements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gauthier, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25G (Handles FOR Hand Implements), Gauthier ranks #6 of 231 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Lentigen Technology, Inc. 35 Shenzhen Antop Technology Co., Ltd. 35 Mauser Werke GmbH 35 Sunland Information Technology Co., Ltd. 35

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.5 here).

FDK Corporation 5.5 avg Hyper Ice, Inc. 5.5 avg Ninebot (BEIJING) Tech Co., Ltd. 5.5 avg CKnapp Sales, Inc. 5.5 avg

Gauthier's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% 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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Gauthier Biomedical, Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	8.0%
2016	3	6.0%
2017	10	20.0%
2018	2	4.0%
2019	5	10.0%
2020	8	16.0%
2021	4	8.0%
2022	5	10.0%
2023	6	12.0%
2024	1	2.0%
2025partial year	2	4.0%

Which technologies does Gauthier Biomedical, Inc patent most?

B25G - Handles FOR Hand Implements 13

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 13

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 11

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B25H - Workshop Equipment, e.g. FOR Marking-out WORK; Storage Means FOR Workshops 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

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 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 2

B23B - TURNING; Boring 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gauthier Biomedical, Inc's lead technology class is B25G (Handles FOR Hand Implements), 26% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25G
Ranked #6,653 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gauthier Biomedical, Inc against Gema Switzerland GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.8/100 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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