Where does GE Healthcare Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GE Healthcare Limited ranks #3,655 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 GE Healthcare Limited hold?

GE Healthcare Limited holds 100 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is GE Healthcare Limited's Innovation Score?

GE Healthcare Limited has an Innovation Score of 48.6 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does GE Healthcare Limited focus on?

GE Healthcare Limited's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 62 patents, ranking #331 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is GE Healthcare Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GE Healthcare Limited's recent grant velocity is -59% 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 GE Healthcare Limited's patents?

GE Healthcare Limited's patents average 13.7 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 GE Healthcare Limited 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

GE Healthcare Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 100 granted patents across 40 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GE ranks #3,655 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 100 patents across 40 technology areas.

#3,655
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.6/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3655 · Foreign Corporation #3,655 · 100 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 100 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,655/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Casio Keisanki
CPC-WIDE A61K · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Casio Keisanki Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 GE’s 48.6 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 15.9 pts (33%) Velocity 2.1 pts (4%) Breadth 22.4 pts (46%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Contitech Transportb… · near

49
GE Healthcare · this assignee

49
Inspire Medical… · near

49
Intematix · near

49
LG CNS · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GE's Innovation Score is 48.6/100 (top 16% 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 GE?

Each dot is one of GE’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). GE’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where GE's grants concentrate

GE Healthcare Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 62% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (20 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, GE sits between Casio Keisanki Kabushiki Kaisha and Litens Automotive Partnership.

GE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GE Healthcare Limited moved from 29 to 9 grants (0.31x 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 #2,990. See the growth leaderboard.

Casio Keisanki

100
Chargepoint

100
FCA Italy S p A

100
Forescout

100
Huawei Canada

100
Kingston Digital

100
Laboratory OF Ame…

100
Litens Automotive…

100
GE Healthcare ◀

100

What this shows GE holds 100 patents at rank #3,655, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GE

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,655 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), GE ranks #331 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

LG CNS Co., Ltd. 49 Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. 49 Intematix Corporation 49 Contitech Transportbandsysteme GmBH 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

SHL Group AB 13.7 avg Fasteners for Retail, Inc. 13.7 avg Embraer S.A. 13.7 avg Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. 13.7 avg

GE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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GE Healthcare Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	20.0%
2016	18	18.0%
2017	10	10.0%
2018	11	11.0%
2019	10	10.0%
2020	12	12.0%
2021	7	7.0%
2022	5	5.0%
2023	2	2.0%
2024	2	2.0%
2025partial year	3	3.0%

Which technologies does GE Healthcare Limited patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 62

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 42

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 27

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 25

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 17

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 9

C07K - Peptides 8

G21G - Conversion OF Chemical ELEMENTS; Radioactive Sources 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

B01D - Separation 6

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 6

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 6

Top 15 of 40 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

GE Healthcare Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GE Healthcare Limited's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 62% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,655 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GE Healthcare Limited against Casio Keisanki Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.6/100 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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