Where does Helsinn Healthcare SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Helsinn Healthcare SA ranks #6,539 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 Helsinn Healthcare SA hold?

Helsinn Healthcare SA holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Helsinn Healthcare SA's Innovation Score?

Helsinn Healthcare SA has an Innovation Score of 40.0 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Helsinn Healthcare SA focus on?

Helsinn Healthcare SA's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 44 patents, ranking #411 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Helsinn Healthcare SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Helsinn Healthcare SA's recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Helsinn Healthcare SA's patents?

Helsinn Healthcare SA'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 Helsinn Healthcare SA 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

Helsinn Healthcare SA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 9 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Helsinn ranks #6,539 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 9 technology areas.

#6,539
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (40.0/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6539 · Foreign Corporation #6,539 · 51 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,539/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Glenmark Pharmaceuti…
CPC-NARROW A61P · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 40.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A. (±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 Helsinn’s 40.0 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 13.6 pts (34%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 10.6 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Heifeng Zhizao… · near

40
Helsinn Healthcare · this assignee

40
Lagom Kitchen · near

40
Mid-West Metal… · near

40
Peridot Print · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Helsinn's Innovation Score is 40.0/100 (top 37% 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 Helsinn?

Each dot is one of Helsinn’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). Helsinn’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Helsinn's grants concentrate

Helsinn Healthcare SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 86.3% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Helsinn sits between Guangdong Bestek E-commerce Co., Ltd. and Integrity Security Services LLC.

Helsinn's three-year grant acceleration

Helsinn Healthcare SA shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Guangdong Bestek…

51
Guangzhou Tyrafos…

51
Glenmark Pharmace…

51
Glock Technology

51
Howmet Aerospace

51
Inergy Automotive…

51
Inha-industry Par…

51
Integrity Securit…

51
Helsinn Healthcare ◀

51

What this shows Helsinn holds 51 patents at rank #6,539, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Helsinn

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,539 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Helsinn, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), Helsinn ranks #411 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Lagom Kitchen Co. 40 Mid-West Metal Products Company, Inc. 40 Peridot Print LLC 40 Heifeng Zhizao (SHENZHEN) Technology Co., Ltd 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Li-cor, Inc. 18.8 avg Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV 18.8 avg OpenTV, Inc. 18.8 avg The Governing Council of the University of Toronto 18.8 avg

Helsinn's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% 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.

View data table

Helsinn Healthcare SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	9.8%
2016	8	15.7%
2017	3	5.9%
2018	9	17.6%
2019	6	11.8%
2020	6	11.8%
2021	3	5.9%
2022	3	5.9%
2023	2	3.9%
2024	5	9.8%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Helsinn Healthcare SA patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 44

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 37

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 27

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 10

C07K - Peptides 8

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 7

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 3

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 2

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

Helsinn Healthcare SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Helsinn Healthcare SA's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 86.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #6,539 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Helsinn Healthcare SA against Guangdong Bestek E-commerce Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.0/100 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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