Where does Medical Components, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Medical Components, Inc. ranks #5,959 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 Medical Components, Inc. hold?

Medical Components, Inc. holds 57 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Medical Components, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Medical Components, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Medical Components, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Medical Components, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +4% 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 Medical Components, Inc.'s patents?

Medical Components, Inc.'s patents average 14.6 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 Medical Components, 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

Medical Components, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Medical Components, Inc. focus on?

Medical Components, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 48 patents, ranking #149 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 57 granted patents across 9 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Medical ranks #5,959 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 57 patents across 9 technology areas.

#5,959
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5959 · US Corporation #5,959 · 57 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 57 grants
UPPER-Q #5,959/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kyosan Electric MFG
CPC-NARROW A61M · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kyosan Electric MFG. 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 Medical’s 39.7 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 14.0 pts (35%) Velocity 6.3 pts (16%) Breadth 10.6 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
KHN Solutions · near

40
KSB Aktiengesellschaft · near

40
Mead Johnson Nutrition · near

40
Medical Components · this assignee

40
Wuhan Xinxin… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Medical's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 37% 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 Medical?

Each dot is one of Medical’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). Medical’s own 14.6 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Medical's grants concentrate

Medical Components, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 84.2% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Medical sits between Kyosan Electric MFG. Co., Ltd. and Misonix, LLC.

Medical's three-year grant acceleration

Medical Components, Inc. shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Kyosan Electric M…

57
La-z-boy Incorpor…

57
Lyondell Chemical…

57
Mastercard Canada…

57
Metrologic Instru…

57
MGI Tech

57
Mitsui Chemicals…

57
Misonix

57
Medical Components ◀

57

What this shows Medical holds 57 patents at rank #5,957, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Medical

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,957 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Medical, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Medical ranks #149 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

KHN Solutions, LLC 40 Mead Johnson Nutrition Company 40 Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 40 KSB Aktiengesellschaft 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.6 here).

Herakles 14.6 avg Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation 14.6 avg Sargent Manufacturing Company 14.6 avg Corteva Agriscience LLC 14.6 avg

Medical's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% 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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Medical Components, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.5%
2016	7	12.3%
2017	8	14.0%
2018	3	5.3%
2019	7	12.3%
2020	6	10.5%
2021	5	8.8%
2022	5	8.8%
2023	6	10.5%
2024	6	10.5%
2025partial year	2	3.5%

Which technologies does Medical Components, Inc. patent most?

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 48

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Medical Components, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Medical Components, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 84.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #5,959 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Medical Components, Inc. against Kyosan Electric MFG. Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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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