Where does Koniniklijke Philips N.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Koniniklijke Philips N.V. ranks #37 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 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. hold?

Koniniklijke Philips N.V. holds 9,647 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 334 technology areas.

What is Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s Innovation Score?

Koniniklijke Philips N.V. has an Innovation Score of 70.6 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 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. focus on?

Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 3,414 patents, ranking #2 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 334 CPC subclasses total.

Is Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s patents?

Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s patents average 14.7 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 Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 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

Koniniklijke Philips N.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9,647 granted patents across 334 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, Koniniklijke ranks #37 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9,647 patents across 334 technology areas.

#37
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.6/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37 · Foreign Corporation #37 · 9,647 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 9.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #37/49,997
NEAR-PEER Fujitsu
CPC-BROAD A61B · 334 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fujitsu Limited (±7 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 Koniniklijke’s 70.6 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 31.7 pts (45%) Velocity 5.1 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Haier Smart Home · near

71
Koniniklijke Philips · this assignee

71
General Electric… · near

71
Tahoe Research · near

71
Postech Research… · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Koniniklijke's Innovation Score is 70.6/100 (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 Koniniklijke?

Each dot is one of Koniniklijke’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). Koniniklijke’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Koniniklijke's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Koniniklijke Philips N.V. received 4,063 grants versus 5,089 in 2015–2019 (-20% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 1,118 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 648. Lead class A61B accounts for 35.4% of the portfolio across 334 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Texas Instruments Incorporated (#33) and Fujifilm Corporation (#41).

Koniniklijke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Koniniklijke Philips N.V. moved from 2,889 to 2,226 grants (0.77x 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 #1,930. See the growth leaderboard.

Texas Instruments…

9,915
SK hynix

9,830
NEC

9,672
Fujitsu

9,654
Koniniklijke Phil… ◀

9,647
AT&T Intellectual…

9,554
Denso

9,480
Hewlett-packard D…

8,656
Fujifilm

8,518

What this shows Koniniklijke holds 9,647 patents at rank #37, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Koniniklijke

By rank, the assignees closest to #37 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Koniniklijke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Koniniklijke ranks #2 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L. 71 Tahoe Research, Ltd. 71 Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. 71 Postech Research and Business Development Foundation 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

Beckman Coulter, Inc. 14.7 avg Lupin Limited 14.7 avg Garmin International, Inc. 14.7 avg Shop VAC Corporation 14.7 avg

Koniniklijke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 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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Koniniklijke Philips N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,087	11.3%
2016	1,118	11.6%
2017	932	9.7%
2018	900	9.3%
2019	1,052	10.9%
2020	960	10.0%
2021	877	9.1%
2022	854	8.9%
2023	648	6.7%
2024	724	7.5%
2025partial year	495	5.1%

Which technologies does Koniniklijke Philips N.V. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3,414

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1,322

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1,161

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 836

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 696

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 689

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 534

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 414

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 410

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 409

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 376

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 355

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 325

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 260

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 259

Top 15 of 334 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

Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Koniniklijke Philips N.V.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 35.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #37 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Koniniklijke Philips N.V. against Texas Instruments Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.6/100 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

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.

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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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