Where does Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV ranks #3,736 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 Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV hold?

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV holds 97 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's Innovation Score?

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has an Innovation Score of 52.1 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%).

What technology areas does Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV focus on?

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 27 patents. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

Is Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's patents?

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV'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 Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV 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

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 97 granted patents across 59 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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, Koninklijke ranks #3,736 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 97 patents across 59 technology areas.

#3,736
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.1/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3736 · Foreign Corporation #3,736 · 97 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 97 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,736/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dynasty Footwear
CPC-WIDE A61B · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dynasty Footwear, Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Berry Plastics · near

52
Digital Seat Media · near

52
Haemonetics · near

52
Koninklijke Philips · this assignee

52
Matrixed Reality… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Koninklijke's Innovation Score is 52.1/100 (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.

How Koninklijke's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV received 1 grants versus 96 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 44 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class A61B accounts for 27.8% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Dynasty Footwear, Ltd. (#3,731) and Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. (#3,739).

Dynasty Footwear

97
Eppendorf

97
Harbor Freight To…

97
Immunolight

97
Korea Institute o…

97
Lord

97
Mobile Technology

97
Nuvasive Speciali…

97
Koninklijke Phili… ◀

97

What this shows Koninklijke holds 97 patents at rank #3,735, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Koninklijke

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,735 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Koninklijke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Berry Plastics Corporation 52 Haemonetics Corporation 52 Matrixed Reality Technology Co., Ltd. 52 Digital Seat Media, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

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

Li-cor, Inc. 18.8 avg OpenTV, Inc. 18.8 avg The Governing Council of the University of Toronto 18.8 avg Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited 18.8 avg

Koninklijke'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 · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	15.5%
2016	44	45.4%
2017	25	25.8%
2018	5	5.2%
2019	7	7.2%
2021	1	1.0%

Which technologies does Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 27

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 16

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 13

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 10

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 9

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 9

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 8

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 8

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 8

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 7

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 7

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 5

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 5

Top 15 of 59 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,736

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 27.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #3,736 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV against Dynasty Footwear, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.1/100 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.

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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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