Where does Life Spine, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Life Spine, Inc. ranks #2,526 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 Life Spine, Inc. hold?

Life Spine, Inc. holds 154 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Life Spine, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Life Spine, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Life Spine, Inc. focus on?

Life Spine, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 103 patents, ranking #176 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Life Spine, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Life Spine, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +15% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Life Spine, Inc.'s patents?

Life Spine, Inc.'s patents average 15.0 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 Life Spine, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Life Spine, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 154 granted patents across 8 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, Life ranks #2,526 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 154 patents across 8 technology areas.

#2,526
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2526 · US Corporation #2,526 · 154 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 154 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,526/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Citizen Holdings
CPC-NARROW A61B · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Citizen Holdings Co., 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.

How Life’s 41.9 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 17.4 pts (42%) Velocity 5.5 pts (13%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Elite Material · near

42
Life Spine · this assignee

42
Shape Security · near

42
Skyhook Wireless · near

42
WWW TRUSTSCIENCE COM · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Life's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 Life?

Each dot is one of Life’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). Life’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Life's grants concentrate

Life Spine, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 66.9% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (20 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2017. By volume, Life sits between Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. and Rehrig Pacific Company.

Life's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Life Spine, Inc. moved from 51 to 42 grants (0.82x 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 #1,750. See the growth leaderboard.

Citizen Holdings

154
Hannstar Display

154
Lumens

154
Lyten

154
Melexis

154
Oregon State Univ…

154
Polestar Performa…

154
Rehrig Pacific

154
Life Spine ◀

154

What this shows Life holds 154 patents at rank #2,528, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Life

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,528 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Life, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Life ranks #176 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Shape Security, Inc. 42 Skyhook Wireless, Inc. 42 Elite Material Co., Ltd. 42 WWW.TRUSTSCIENCE.COM Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 15.0 avg Vrije Universiteit Brussel 15.0 avg Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki 15.0 avg Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG 15.0 avg

Life's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Life Spine, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	13.0%
2016	10	6.5%
2017	8	5.2%
2018	15	9.7%
2019	15	9.7%
2020	18	11.7%
2021	18	11.7%
2022	11	7.1%
2023	11	7.1%
2024	20	13.0%
2025partial year	8	5.2%

Which technologies does Life Spine, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 103

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 84

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

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

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 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Life Spine, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Life Spine, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 66.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #2,526 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Life Spine, Inc. against Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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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