Where does Geistlich Pharma AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Geistlich Pharma AG ranks #10,623 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 Geistlich Pharma AG hold?

Geistlich Pharma AG holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Geistlich Pharma AG's Innovation Score?

Geistlich Pharma AG has an Innovation Score of 36.7 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Geistlich Pharma AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Geistlich Pharma AG's recent grant velocity is +42% 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 Geistlich Pharma AG's patents?

Geistlich Pharma AG's patents average 18.8 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 Geistlich Pharma AG 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

Geistlich Pharma AG

Q: What technology areas does Geistlich Pharma AG focus on?

Geistlich Pharma AG's top technology area is 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) with 17 patents, ranking #160 of 2,589 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 9 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: 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;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Geistlich ranks #10,623 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 9 technology areas.

#10,623
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.7/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: +42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10623 · Foreign Corporation #10,623 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,623/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Florida Atlantic…
CPC-NARROW A61L · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees (±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 Geistlich’s 36.7 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 11.7 pts (32%) Velocity 3.1 pts (8%) Breadth 10.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adaptiv Networks · near

37
Geistlich Pharma · this assignee

37
Inno-Pak · near

37
Zagg Intellectual… · near

37
Zepp · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Geistlich's Innovation Score is 36.7/100 (top 46% 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 Geistlich?

Each dot is one of Geistlich’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). Geistlich’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Geistlich's grants concentrate

Geistlich Pharma AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 58.6% of grants classified under 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;). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Geistlich sits between Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees and Graff Breeding A/S.

Geistlich's three-year grant acceleration

Geistlich Pharma AG shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Florida Atlantic…

29
Fluid Equipment D…

29
Fugro

29
GEA Tuchenhagen

29
GKN Driveline Int…

29
Global Industrial…

29
Goodbaby Child Pr…

29
Graff Breeding A/S

29
Geistlich Pharma ◀

29

What this shows Geistlich holds 29 patents at rank #10,622, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Geistlich

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,622 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61L (Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Geistlich, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61L (Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects…), Geistlich ranks #160 of 2,589 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Zagg Intellectual Property Holding Co., Inc. 37 Adaptiv Networks Inc. 37 Inno-Pak, LLC 37 Zepp, Inc. 37

Geistlich's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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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Geistlich Pharma AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	13.8%
2016	1	3.4%
2017	4	13.8%
2018	1	3.4%
2019	2	6.9%
2020	7	24.1%
2021	4	13.8%
2022	2	6.9%
2023	3	10.3%
2024	1	3.4%

Which technologies does Geistlich Pharma AG patent most?

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 17

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 14

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 8

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 6

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

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 1

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 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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Geistlich Pharma AG's lead technology class is 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;), 58.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61L
Ranked #10,623 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Geistlich Pharma AG against Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.7/100 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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