Where does HealthStream, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HealthStream, Inc. ranks #26,454 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 HealthStream, Inc. hold?

HealthStream, Inc. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is HealthStream, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

HealthStream, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.6 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is HealthStream, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for HealthStream, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for HealthStream, Inc.'s patents?

HealthStream, Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 HealthStream, 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

HealthStream, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does HealthStream, Inc. focus on?

HealthStream, Inc.'s top technology area is G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data) with 10 patents, ranking #485 of 3,149 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Healthstream ranks #26,454 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 5 technology areas.

#26,454
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.6/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26454 · US Corporation #26,454 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,454/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hankscraft
CPC-NARROW G16H · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hankscraft, 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 Healthstream’s 32.6 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 8.3 pts (25%) Velocity 5.0 pts (15%) Breadth 7.9 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HealthStream · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Healthstream's Innovation Score is 32.6/100 (42nd 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 Healthstream?

Each dot is one of Healthstream’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). Healthstream’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Healthstream's grants concentrate

HealthStream, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Healthstream sits between Hankscraft, Inc. and Helix BioPharma Corp..

Healthstream's three-year grant acceleration

HealthStream, Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Hankscraft

10
Hanover Prest-pav…

10
Harken Incorporat…

10
Haynes Internatio…

10
Hearth Hounds

10
Heatworks

10
Heinrich-heine-un…

10
Helix Biopharma

10
Healthstream ◀

10

What this shows HealthStream holds 10 patents at rank #26,478, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HealthStream

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,478 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G16H (Healthcare Informatics)

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

Healthstream's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2020–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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HealthStream, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	20.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2024	2	20.0%
2025partial year	3	30.0%

Which technologies does HealthStream, Inc. patent most?

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

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

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

HealthStream, Inc.'s lead technology class is G16H (Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G16H
Ranked #26,454 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HealthStream, Inc. against Hankscraft, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.6/100 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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