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 50,000 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 (top 67% 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. 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 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 10 technology areas.

#16,943
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 67%
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 #16,943/50,000
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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Laerdal Medical AS · this assignee

30
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Laerdal Medical AS stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #16,943 of 50,000; Innovation Score 30.1/100 sits in the top 67% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Laerdal Medical AS has been granted 17 US utility patents between 2015 and 2023, placing Laerdal Medical AS at #16,943 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 10 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 10.5 claims per patent with primary concentration in G09B (EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS). As a Foreign Corporation, Laerdal Medical AS is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Laerdal sits between Knowles Cazenovia, Inc. (17 patents, rank #16,938) and Levita Magnetics International Corp. (17 patents, rank #16,946) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 30.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 6 grants, compared with 11 in the 2015–2019 window, a -45% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Laerdal Medical AS's 10.5 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 10 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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 Top 67% higher than 33% of 50,000 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

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#16,943

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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