Where does Medtronic, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Medtronic, Inc. ranks #117 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, Inc. hold?

Medtronic, Inc. holds 3,184 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 124 technology areas.

What is Medtronic, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Medtronic, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 72.2 out of 100 (top 1% 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, Inc. focus on?

Medtronic, Inc.'s top technology area is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy) with 2,200 patents, ranking #1 of 1,943 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 124 CPC subclasses total.

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

Medtronic, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Medtronic, Inc.'s patents?

Medtronic, Inc.'s patents average 20.4 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, 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

Medtronic, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,184 granted patents across 124 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: A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Medtronic ranks #117 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,184 patents across 124 technology areas.

#117
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (72.2/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R117 · US Corporation #117 · 3,184 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #117/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH STMicroelectronics
CPC-WIDE A61N · 124 areas
INNOV-STRONG 72.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: STMicroelectronics SA (±2 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 72.2 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 27.9 pts (39%) Velocity 7.1 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ford Global · near

72
Aisin · near

72
Medtronic · this assignee

72
Doosan Enerbility · near

72
Mellanox · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Medtronic's Innovation Score is 72.2/100 (top 1% 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 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 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.

How Medtronic's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Medtronic, Inc. received 1,355 grants versus 1,642 in 2015–2019 (-17% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 369 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 224. Lead class A61N accounts for 69.1% of the portfolio across 124 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nippon Telegraph AND Telephone Corporation (#113) and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (#121).

Medtronic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Medtronic, Inc. moved from 798 to 848 grants (1.06x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,027. See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Telegraph…

3,279
Yazaki

3,264
Toyota Motor Engi…

3,200
Sumitomo Wiring S…

3,190
Medtronic ◀

3,184
Stmicroelectronics

3,182
Raytheon

3,108
Nvidia

3,075
Sony Interactive…

3,038

What this shows Medtronic holds 3,184 patents at rank #117, 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 #117 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61N (Electrotherapy)

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 A61N (Electrotherapy), Medtronic ranks #1 of 1,943 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

Aisin Corporation 72 Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. 72 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. 72 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) 20.4 avg Hydro-Quebec 20.4 avg Wirtgen GmbH 20.4 avg Cloudflare, Inc. 20.4 avg

Medtronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% 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, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	369	11.6%
2016	330	10.4%
2017	352	11.1%
2018	300	9.4%
2019	291	9.1%
2020	283	8.9%
2021	224	7.0%
2022	262	8.2%
2023	298	9.4%
2024	288	9.0%
2025partial year	187	5.9%

Which technologies does Medtronic, Inc. patent most?

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 2,200

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1,387

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 578

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 318

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 312

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 179

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 111

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 92

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 87

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 87

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 66

B01D - Separation 63

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 58

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 56

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 53

Top 15 of 124 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, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Medtronic, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy), 69.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61N
Ranked #117 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Medtronic, Inc. against Nippon Telegraph AND Telephone Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 72.2/100 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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