Where does Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC ranks #4,632 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 Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC hold?

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC holds 76 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's Innovation Score?

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.4 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC focus on?

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 70 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's recent grant velocity is +38% 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 Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's patents?

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's patents average 19.8 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 Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC 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

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 76 granted patents across 17 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, Medtronic ranks #4,632 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 76 patents across 17 technology areas.

#4,632
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.4/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4632 · US Corporation #4,632 · 76 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 76 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,632/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kyushu Institute OF…
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kyushu Institute OF Technology (±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
Corning Precision… · near

48
General Dynamics… · near

48
Medtronic Advanced… · this assignee

48
Thorley Industries · near

48
Molecular Devices · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Medtronic's Innovation Score is 48.4/100 (top 17% 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 Medtronic's grants concentrate

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 92.1% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Medtronic sits between Kyushu Institute OF Technology and Paris Presents Incorporated.

Medtronic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC moved from 23 to 24 grants (1.04x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Kyushu Institute…

76
Livsmed

76
M&K Holdings

76
Meiji Seika Pharma

76
Nanjing Universit…

76
Nuvectra

76
Opex

76
Paris Presents In…

76
Medtronic Advance… ◀

76

What this shows Medtronic holds 76 patents at rank #4,634, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Medtronic

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,634 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Thorley Industries, LLC 48 General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. 48 Molecular Devices, LLC 48 Corning Precision Materials Co., Ltd. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Navitas Semiconductor Limited 19.8 avg Uptake Technologies, Inc. 19.8 avg Stine Seed Farm, Inc. 19.8 avg Open Invention Network LLC NC 19.8 avg

Medtronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	9.2%
2016	8	10.5%
2017	2	2.6%
2018	5	6.6%
2019	7	9.2%
2020	8	10.5%
2021	8	10.5%
2022	8	10.5%
2023	9	11.8%
2024	7	9.2%
2025partial year	7	9.2%

Which technologies does Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 70

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 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 4

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 4

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 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 1

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

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 1

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,632

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

48.4 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

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 92.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #4,632 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC against Kyushu Institute OF Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.4/100 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

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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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