Where does McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company ranks #8,433 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 Financial Holdings Unlimited Company hold?

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's Innovation Score?

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company has an Innovation Score of 36.3 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company focus on?

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 24 patents, ranking #1,774 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's patents?

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's patents average 18.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company

Q: How is the McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company 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 PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mckesson ranks #8,433 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 13 technology areas.

#8,433
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.3/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8433 · Foreign Corporation #8,433 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,433/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MacDermid Enthone
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MacDermid Enthone 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 Mckesson’s 36.3 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 12.7 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bluebird BIO · near

36
Innowireless · near

36
McKesson Financial… · this assignee

36
Oldcastle BuildingEn… · near

36
Vandor Group · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mckesson's Innovation Score is 36.3/100 (top 47% 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 Mckesson?

Each dot is one of Mckesson’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). Mckesson’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mckesson's grants concentrate

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 63.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (17 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2017. By volume, Mckesson sits between MacDermid Enthone Inc. and Mikron Industries, Inc..

Macdermid Enthone

38
Malwarebytes

38
Marvin Lumber and…

38
Mccain Foods

38
Medtentia Interna…

38
Merative US

38
Micronas

38
Mikron Industries

38
Mckesson Financia… ◀

38

What this shows McKesson holds 38 patents at rank #8,439, 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 #8,439 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), McKesson ranks #1,774 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Innowireless Co., Ltd. 36 Vandor Group, Inc. 36 Bluebird BIO, Inc. 36 Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Inc. 36

Mckesson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	44.7%
2016	16	42.1%
2017	5	13.2%

Which technologies does McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 24

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

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 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 13 of 13 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

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 63.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #8,433 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company against MacDermid Enthone Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.3/100 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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