Where does Iqvia Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Iqvia Inc. ranks #3,970 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 Iqvia Inc. hold?

Iqvia Inc. holds 91 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Iqvia Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Iqvia Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.5 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Iqvia Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +527% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Iqvia Inc.'s patents average 20.5 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 Iqvia 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

Iqvia Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Iqvia Inc. focus on?

Iqvia 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 59 patents, ranking #85 of 3,149 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 91 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Iqvia ranks #3,970 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 91 patents across 13 technology areas.

#3,970
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.5/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: +527%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3970 · US Corporation #3,970 · 91 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 91 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,970/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Evalve
CPC-FOCUS G16H · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +527% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Evalve, 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 Iqvia’s 51.5 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 15.6 pts (30%) Velocity 10.9 pts (21%) Breadth 12.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aviat U S · near

52
Global Technology · near

52
Institute OF… · near

52
Iqvia · this assignee

52
US Conec · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Iqvia's Innovation Score is 51.5/100 (top 11% 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 Iqvia?

Each dot is one of Iqvia’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). Iqvia’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Iqvia's grants concentrate

Iqvia Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 64.8% 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 2024 (23 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Iqvia sits between Evalve, Inc. and Kistler Holding AG.

Iqvia's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Iqvia Inc. moved from 30 to 49 grants (1.63x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Evalve

91
Galderma Holding

91
Hover

91
Idexx Laboratories

91
JGC Catalysts and…

91
Joyetech Europe H…

91
Kofax

91
Kistler Holding

91
Iqvia ◀

91

What this shows Iqvia holds 91 patents at rank #3,970, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Iqvia

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,970 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G16H (Healthcare Informatics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Iqvia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G16H (Healthcare Informatics), Iqvia ranks #85 of 3,149 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

US Conec Ltd. 52 Institute OF Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan 52 Global Technology Co., Ltd 52 Aviat U.S., Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.5 here).

Intrinsic Innovation LLC 20.5 avg United Kingdom Research and Innovation 20.5 avg Cupp Computing AS 20.5 avg Varex Imaging Corporation 20.5 avg

Iqvia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Iqvia Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	1.1%
2019	10	11.0%
2020	12	13.2%
2021	8	8.8%
2022	11	12.1%
2023	15	16.5%
2024	23	25.3%
2025partial year	11	12.1%

Which technologies does Iqvia 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 59

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 52

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 27

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 23

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 10

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

Top 13 of 13 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

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

Iqvia 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), 64.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G16H
Ranked #3,970 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Iqvia Inc. against Evalve, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.5/100 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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