Where does LDR Medical rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LDR Medical ranks #4,673 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 LDR Medical hold?

LDR Medical holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is LDR Medical's Innovation Score?

LDR Medical has an Innovation Score of 34.2 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is LDR Medical's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LDR Medical's recent grant velocity is -81% 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 LDR Medical's patents?

LDR Medical's patents average 17.0 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 LDR Medical 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

LDR Medical

Q: What technology areas does LDR Medical focus on?

LDR Medical's top technology area is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs) with 56 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 4 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: A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, LDR ranks #4,673 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 4 technology areas.

#4,673
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.2/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4673 · Foreign Corporation #4,673 · 75 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,673/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hussmann
CPC-NARROW A61F · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hussmann Corporation (±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
StoreBound · near

34
LDR Medical · this assignee

34
Scholar Rock · near

34
Hill-Rom Services PTE · near

34
Transgene · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows LDR's Innovation Score is 34.2/100 (47th 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.

Where LDR's grants concentrate

LDR Medical is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 74.7% of grants classified under A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (17 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, LDR sits between Hussmann Corporation and Oren Technologies, LLC.

LDR's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, LDR Medical moved from 20 to 6 grants (0.30x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Hussmann

75
Hyundai Steel

75
Invensas Bonding

75
Incept

75
Lifenet Health

75
MCS Industries

75
Maquet Critical C…

75
Oren

75
LDR Medical ◀

75

What this shows LDR holds 75 patents at rank #4,673, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near LDR

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,673 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Scholar Rock, Inc. 34 Hill-Rom Services PTE. Ltd. 34 Transgene SA 34 StoreBound LLC 34

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

DR. Reddy's Laboratories Limited 17.0 avg Wangs Alliance Corporation 17.0 avg EGALAX_EMPIA Technology Inc. 17.0 avg Cedars Sinai Medical Center 17.0 avg

LDR's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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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LDR Medical patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	12.0%
2016	11	14.7%
2017	17	22.7%
2018	11	14.7%
2019	14	18.7%
2020	6	8.0%
2022	2	2.7%
2023	2	2.7%
2024	2	2.7%
2025partial year	1	1.3%

Which technologies does LDR Medical patent most?

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 56

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 51

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,673

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.2 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

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

LDR Medical's lead technology class is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device), 74.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #4,673 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare LDR Medical against Hussmann Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.2/100 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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