Where does Laerdal Medical AS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Laerdal Medical AS ranks #16,943 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 Laerdal Medical AS hold?

Laerdal Medical AS holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Laerdal Medical AS's Innovation Score?

Laerdal Medical AS has an Innovation Score of 30.1 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Laerdal Medical AS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Laerdal Medical AS's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Laerdal Medical AS's patents?

Laerdal Medical AS's patents average 10.5 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 Laerdal Medical AS 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

Laerdal Medical AS

Q: What technology areas does Laerdal Medical AS focus on?

Laerdal Medical AS's top technology area is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams) with 7 patents, ranking #141 of 1,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Laerdal ranks #16,943 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 10 technology areas.

#16,943
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.1/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16943 · Foreign Corporation #16,943 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,943/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Knowles Cazenovia
CPC-FOCUS G09B · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Knowles Cazenovia, 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 Laerdal’s 30.1 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 10.0 pts (33%) Velocity 2.7 pts (9%) Breadth 11.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Laerdal Medical AS · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Laerdal's Innovation Score is 30.1/100 (33rd percentile 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 Laerdal?

Each dot is one of Laerdal’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). Laerdal’s own 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Laerdal's grants concentrate

Laerdal Medical AS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 41.2% of grants classified under G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Laerdal sits between Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. and Levita Magnetics International Corp..

Laerdal's three-year grant acceleration

Laerdal Medical AS shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Knowles Cazenovia

17
Kurimoto

17
Kyocera AVX Compo…

17
L3 Cincinnati

17
Lantronix

17
Lanxess Internati…

17
LDR Medical S

17
Levita Magnetics…

17
Laerdal Medical AS ◀

17

What this shows Laerdal holds 17 patents at rank #16,942, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Laerdal

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,942 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09B (Educational OR Demonstration Appliances)

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

Laerdal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Laerdal Medical AS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.8%
2016	3	17.6%
2017	2	11.8%
2018	3	17.6%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	2	11.8%
2021	2	11.8%
2023	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Laerdal Medical AS patent most?

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 7

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 4

A61H - Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

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 1

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 1

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 1

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Laerdal Medical AS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Laerdal Medical AS's lead technology class is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams), 41.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09B
Ranked #16,943 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Laerdal Medical AS against Knowles Cazenovia, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.1/100 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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