Where does Medtronic Holding Company Sarl rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Medtronic Holding Company Sarl ranks #5,095 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 Holding Company Sarl hold?

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's Innovation Score?

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl has an Innovation Score of 40.9 out of 100 (top 34% 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 Holding Company Sarl focus on?

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 64 patents, ranking #289 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's recent grant velocity is +64% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's patents?

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's patents average 19.2 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 Holding Company Sarl 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 Foreign Corporation

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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 #5,095 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 9 technology areas.

#5,095
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (40.9/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5095 · Foreign Corporation #5,095 · 68 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,095/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kumu Networks
CPC-NARROW A61B · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kumu Networks, 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 Medtronic’s 40.9 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 14.6 pts (36%) Velocity 4.1 pts (10%) Breadth 10.6 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Glashütter Uhrenbetr… · near

41
GLO AB · near

41
Medtronic Holding Sarl · this assignee

41
Shanghai Institute… · near

41
Walker Digital… · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Medtronic's Innovation Score is 40.9/100 (top 34% 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 Medtronic?

Each dot is one of Medtronic’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). Medtronic’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Medtronic's grants concentrate

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 94.1% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (19 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2018. By volume, Medtronic sits between Kumu Networks, Inc. and Nutrition & Biosciences USA 4, Inc..

Medtronic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Medtronic Holding Company Sarl moved from 37 to 23 grants (0.62x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Kumu Networks

68
Lvmh Recherche

68
Maquet Cardiovasc…

68
Medizinische Hoch…

68
Merz Pharma & Kgaa

68
Middle Chart

68
Nelson Irrigation

68
Nutrition & Biosc…

68
Medtronic Holding… ◀

68

What this shows Medtronic holds 68 patents at rank #5,093, 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 #5,093 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). In A61B (Diagnosis), Medtronic ranks #289 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

GLO AB 41 Walker Digital Table Systems, LLC 41 Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH 41 Shanghai Institute OF Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

Shape Corp. 19.2 avg X-Celeprint Limited 19.2 avg Tibco Software Inc. 19.2 avg SF Motors, Inc. 19.2 avg

Medtronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Medtronic Holding Company Sarl patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	6	8.8%
2019	19	27.9%
2020	10	14.7%
2021	8	11.8%
2022	9	13.2%
2023	7	10.3%
2024	7	10.3%
2025partial year	2	2.9%

Which technologies does Medtronic Holding Company Sarl patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 64

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 14

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 7

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 3

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 3

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 3

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 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

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Medtronic Holding Company Sarl's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 94.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #5,095 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Medtronic Holding Company Sarl against Kumu Networks, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.9/100 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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