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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hologic, Inc. ranks #978 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 Hologic, Inc. hold?

Hologic, Inc. holds 449 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is Hologic, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hologic, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hologic, Inc. focus on?

Hologic, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 358 patents, ranking #51 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

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

Hologic, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +41% 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 Hologic, Inc.'s patents?

Hologic, Inc.'s patents average 16.5 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 Hologic, 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

Hologic, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 449 granted patents across 46 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hologic ranks #978 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 449 patents across 46 technology areas.

#978
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.1/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R978 · US Corporation #978 · 449 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 449 grants
TOP-DECILE #978/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avery Dennison…
CPC-WIDE A61B · 46 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (±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 Hologic’s 65.1 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 21.1 pts (32%) Velocity 10.2 pts (16%) Breadth 24.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Motorola Solutions · near

65
Hologic · this assignee

65
ResMed · near

65
Southwest Jiaotong… · near

65
Lyft · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hologic's Innovation Score is 65.1/100 (top 1% 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 Hologic?

Each dot is one of Hologic’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). Hologic’s own 16.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hologic's grants concentrate

Hologic, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 79.7% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (73 grants) versus a trough of 28 in 2017. By volume, Hologic sits between Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation and Schneider Electric USA, Inc..

Hologic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hologic, Inc. moved from 109 to 166 grants (1.52x 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 #433. See the growth leaderboard.

Commonwealth Scie…

450
Gree Electric App…

450
The Mathworks

450
Avery Dennison Re…

449
Rosemount Aerospa…

449
THE Coca-cola

449
Hologic ◀

449
Richtek Technology

448
Schneider Electri…

448

What this shows Hologic holds 449 patents at rank #978, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hologic

By rank, the assignees closest to #978 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hologic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Hologic ranks #51 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

ResMed Corp. 65 Southwest Jiaotong University 65 Motorola Solutions, Inc. 65 Lyft, Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

University of Iowa Research Foundation 16.5 avg Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG 16.5 avg SoftBank Corp. 16.5 avg Fingerprint Cards AB 16.5 avg

Hologic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Hologic, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	7.6%
2016	29	6.5%
2017	28	6.2%
2018	36	8.0%
2019	40	8.9%
2020	38	8.5%
2021	31	6.9%
2022	49	10.9%
2023	44	9.8%
2024	73	16.3%
2025partial year	47	10.5%

Which technologies does Hologic, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 358

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 103

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 52

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

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 31

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 30

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 29

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 23

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 14

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 9

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 8

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 7

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 6

Top 15 of 46 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

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

Hologic, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 79.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #978 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hologic, Inc. against Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.1/100 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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