Where does Geisinger Clinic rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Geisinger Clinic ranks #31,751 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 Geisinger Clinic hold?

Geisinger Clinic holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Geisinger Clinic's Innovation Score?

Geisinger Clinic has an Innovation Score of 50.5 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 Geisinger Clinic focus on?

Geisinger Clinic's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 8 patents, ranking #2,086 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Geisinger Clinic's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Geisinger Clinic's recent grant velocity is +600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Geisinger Clinic's patents?

Geisinger Clinic's patents average 26.8 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 Geisinger Clinic 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

Geisinger Clinic

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 5 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Geisinger ranks #31,751 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 5 technology areas.

#31,751
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 26.8
avg claims per patent: +600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31751 · US Corporation #31,751 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,751/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Garmor
CPC-NARROW A61B · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Garmor 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 Geisinger’s 50.5 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 7.6 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 7.9 pts (16%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Geisinger Clinic · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Geisinger's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (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 Geisinger?

Each dot is one of Geisinger’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). Geisinger’s own 26.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Geisinger's grants concentrate

Geisinger Clinic is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Geisinger sits between Garmor Inc. and Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd..

Geisinger's three-year grant acceleration

Geisinger Clinic shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Garmor

8
Gartner

8
Gattaco

8
Gebr Kemper + KG…

8
General LED Opco

8
General Monitors

8
Gentuity

8
Gifu Plastic Indu…

8
Geisinger Clinic ◀

8

What this shows Geisinger holds 8 patents at rank #31,804, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Geisinger

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,804 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Geisinger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 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.

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Geisinger Clinic patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	12.5%
2022	1	12.5%
2023	2	25.0%
2024	4	50.0%

Which technologies does Geisinger Clinic patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Top 5 of 5 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

Geisinger Clinic's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Geisinger Clinic's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #31,751 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Geisinger Clinic against Garmor Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.