Where does Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited ranks #11,266 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 Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited hold?

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's Innovation Score?

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited focus on?

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 10 patents, ranking #2,196 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's patents?

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's patents average 14.9 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 Grifols Worldwide Operations 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

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 26 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Grifols ranks #11,266 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 26 technology areas.

#11,266
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11266 · Foreign Corporation #11,266 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,266/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gemalto M2M
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gemalto M2M 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 Grifols’s 44.5 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 11.5 pts (26%) Velocity 6.0 pts (14%) Breadth 18.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Diveplane · near

44
Grifols Worldwide… · this assignee

44
Santa Clara University · near

44
Teva Pharmaceutical… · near

44
The Henry Group · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Grifols's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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 Grifols?

Each dot is one of Grifols’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). Grifols’s own 14.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Grifols's grants concentrate

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 37% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Grifols sits between Geosat Aerospace & Technology Inc. and GenVec, Inc..

Grifols's three-year grant acceleration

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Geosat Aerospace…

27
GKN Aerospace Ser…

27
Gleason-pfauter M…

27
Globe Electric

27
GTJ Ventures

27
GUI Global Produc…

27
Gemalto M2M

27
Genvec

27
Grifols Worldwide… ◀

27

What this shows Grifols holds 27 patents at rank #11,259, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Grifols

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,259 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Grifols, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Grifols ranks #2,196 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

The Henry Group 44 Santa Clara University 44 Diveplane Corporation 44 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. 44

Grifols's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 25% higher than 75% 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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Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.7%
2017	3	11.1%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	1	3.7%
2020	8	29.6%
2021	1	3.7%
2022	3	11.1%
2023	2	7.4%
2024	4	14.8%
2025partial year	3	11.1%

Which technologies does Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 10

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 7

C07K - Peptides 7

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

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

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 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 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 3

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 3

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 1

Top 15 of 26 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

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 37% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #11,266 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Grifols Worldwide Operations Limited against Geosat Aerospace & Technology Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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

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