Where does Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. ranks #6,795 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +81% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.'s patents?

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.'s patents average 19.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.

Q: How many patents does Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. hold?

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

Q: What is Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: How is the Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Institute ranks #6,795 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 6 technology areas.

#6,795
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6795 · US Corporation #6,795 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,795/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Imertech SAS
CPC-NARROW A61F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Imertech SAS (±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 Institute’s 38.6 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 13.5 pts (35%) Velocity 4.9 pts (13%) Breadth 8.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bio-Pharm Solutions · near

39
Canon Finetech · near

39
Institute for… · this assignee

39
Iridium Satellite · near

39
Swedish Orphan… · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Institute's Innovation Score is 38.6/100 (top 40% 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 Institute?

Each dot is one of Institute’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). Institute’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Institute's grants concentrate

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 98% of grants classified under 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 Device). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Institute sits between Interactive Games LLC and Japan Agency FOR Marine-earth Science AND Technology.

Institute's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. moved from 23 to 17 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Interactive Games

49
IPR Licensing

49
Imertech SAS

49
Insmed Incorporat…

49
Interactions

49
Intercept Pharmac…

49
Inventus Power

49
Japan Agency FOR…

49
Institute for Mus… ◀

49

What this shows Institute holds 49 patents at rank #6,797, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Institute

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,797 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Institute, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels), Institute ranks #125 of 3,082 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Iridium Satellite LLC 39 Canon Finetech Inc. 39 Bio-Pharm Solutions Co., Ltd. 39 Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AG 39

Institute's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.0%
2017	1	2.0%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	11	22.4%
2020	8	16.3%
2021	4	8.2%
2022	7	14.3%
2023	6	12.2%
2024	4	8.2%
2025partial year	4	8.2%

Which technologies does Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. patent most?

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 48

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 20

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 6

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

Top 6 of 6 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

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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 Device), 98% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #6,795 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. against Interactive Games LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.6/100 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

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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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