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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heartflow, Inc. ranks #1,458 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 Heartflow, Inc. hold?

Heartflow, Inc. holds 285 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Heartflow, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Heartflow, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.7 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Heartflow, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -4% 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 Heartflow, Inc.'s patents?

Heartflow, Inc.'s patents average 19.9 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 Heartflow, 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

Heartflow, Inc.

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

Heartflow, 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 264 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 285 granted patents across 19 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: 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, Heartflow ranks #1,458 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 285 patents across 19 technology areas.

#1,458
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.7/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: -4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1458 · US Corporation #1,458 · 285 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 285 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,458/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Genesys Telecommunic…
CPC-FOCUS G16H · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Heartflow · this assignee

53
Materials · near

53
Tyco Raychem · near

53
GlaxoSmithKline… · near

53
SAE Magnetics (H K ) · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heartflow's Innovation Score is 52.7/100 (top 10% 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.

Where Heartflow's grants concentrate

Heartflow, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 92.6% 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 2019 (33 grants) versus a trough of 21 in 2022. By volume, Heartflow sits between Tyco Fire Products LP and L&P Property Management Company.

Heartflow's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Heartflow, Inc. moved from 88 to 77 grants (0.88x 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 #1,572. See the growth leaderboard.

Tyco Fire Products

287
Jiaxing Super Lig…

286
Kinpo

286
Genesys Telecommu…

285
University of Iow…

285
VIA Alliance Semi…

285
Heartflow ◀

285
Conair

284
L&P Property Mana…

284

What this shows Heartflow holds 285 patents at rank #1,458, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heartflow

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,458 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G16H (Healthcare Informatics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heartflow, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Tyco Electronics Raychem GmbH 53 Materials Technologies Corporation 53 GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property Development Limited 53 SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 19.9 avg Nokia 19.9 avg Hulu, LLC 19.9 avg Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC 19.9 avg

Heartflow's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Heartflow, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	10.2%
2016	24	8.4%
2017	28	9.8%
2018	24	8.4%
2019	33	11.6%
2020	27	9.5%
2021	28	9.8%
2022	21	7.4%
2023	29	10.2%
2024	27	9.5%
2025partial year	15	5.3%

Which technologies does Heartflow, 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 264

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 238

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 189

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 141

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 103

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 86

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 71

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 57

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 52

G06G - Analogue Computers 50

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 25

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 12

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 7

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 3

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,458

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Heartflow, 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), 92.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G16H
Ranked #1,458 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heartflow, Inc. against Tyco Fire Products LP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.7/100 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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