Where does McKesson Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), McKesson Corporation ranks #4,013 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 McKesson Corporation hold?

McKesson Corporation holds 90 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is McKesson Corporation's Innovation Score?

McKesson Corporation has an Innovation Score of 50.4 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is McKesson Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

McKesson Corporation's recent grant velocity is +228% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for McKesson Corporation's patents?

McKesson Corporation's patents average 17.9 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 McKesson Corporation 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

McKesson Corporation

Q: What technology areas does McKesson Corporation focus on?

McKesson Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 56 patents. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 90 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mckesson ranks #4,013 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 90 patents across 22 technology areas.

#4,013
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.4/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +228%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4013 · US Corporation #4,013 · 90 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 90 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,013/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lashify
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +228% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lashify, 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
Carvana · near

50
McKesson · this assignee

50
PanPsy · near

50
Plansee SE · near

50
Vista Outdoor… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mckesson's Innovation Score is 50.4/100 (top 13% 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 Mckesson's grants concentrate

McKesson Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 62.2% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Mckesson sits between Lixil Corporation and Nuro, Inc..

Mckesson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, McKesson Corporation moved from 33 to 37 grants (1.12x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Lixil

90
Lashify

90
Medacta Internati…

90
Mirise

90
Musco

90
Nanjing Tech Univ…

90
NKT Photonics A/S

90
Nuro

90
Mckesson ◀

90

What this shows McKesson holds 90 patents at rank #4,015, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near McKesson

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,015 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

PanPsy Technologies, LLC 50 Carvana, LLC 50 Plansee SE 50 Vista Outdoor Operations LLC 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Sensirion AG 17.9 avg Flooring Technologies Ltd. 17.9 avg RichWave Technology Corp. 17.9 avg Medos International Sarl 17.9 avg

Mckesson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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McKesson Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.1%
2017	4	4.4%
2018	2	2.2%
2019	11	12.2%
2020	12	13.3%
2021	10	11.1%
2022	10	11.1%
2023	15	16.7%
2024	12	13.3%
2025partial year	13	14.4%

Which technologies does McKesson Corporation patent most?

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 56

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 47

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 28

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 18

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 8

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 6

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 5

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,013

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.4 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

McKesson Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

McKesson Corporation's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 62.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,013 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare McKesson Corporation against Lixil Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.4/100 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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