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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Medtronic Minimed, Inc. ranks #585 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 Minimed, Inc. hold?

Medtronic Minimed, Inc. holds 769 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 82 technology areas.

What is Medtronic Minimed, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Medtronic Minimed, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 67.5 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%).

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

Medtronic Minimed, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +5% 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 Minimed, Inc.'s patents?

Medtronic Minimed, Inc.'s patents average 17.9 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 Minimed, 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 Foreign Corporation

Medtronic Minimed, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Medtronic Minimed, Inc. focus on?

Medtronic Minimed, 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 577 patents, ranking #10 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 82 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 769 granted patents across 82 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, Medtronic ranks #585 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 769 patents across 82 technology areas.

#585
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.5/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R585 · Foreign Corporation #585 · 769 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 769 grants
TOP-DECILE #585/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Axis AB
CPC-WIDE A61M · 82 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Axis AB (±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 67.5 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 23.0 pts (34%) Velocity 8.8 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
City University OF… · near

68
Asics · near

67
Medtronic Minimed · this assignee

67
Teledyne Flir… · near

67
JT International · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Medtronic's Innovation Score is 67.5/100 (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 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 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 Minimed, Inc. received 362 grants versus 346 in 2015–2019 (+5% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 97 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 47. Lead class A61M accounts for 75% of the portfolio across 82 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Novozymes A/S (#581) and Hanon Systems (#589).

Medtronic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Medtronic Minimed, Inc. moved from 190 to 250 grants (1.32x 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 #625. See the growth leaderboard.

Novozymes A/S

770
Axis AB

769
Globalfoundries S…

769
Janssen Pharmaceu…

769
Medtronic Minimed ◀

769
Cochlear

768
Mellanox

766
Mediatek Singapor…

761
Hanon Systems

758

What this shows Medtronic holds 769 patents at rank #585, 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 #585 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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 A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Medtronic ranks #10 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Asics Corporation 67 Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems, Inc. 67 JT International SA 67 City University OF Hong Kong 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Toyota Research Institute, Inc. 17.9 avg Acronis International GmbH 17.9 avg CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina 17.9 avg Ballogy, Inc. 17.9 avg

Medtronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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 Minimed, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	58	7.5%
2016	71	9.2%
2017	72	9.4%
2018	67	8.7%
2019	78	10.1%
2020	65	8.5%
2021	47	6.1%
2022	65	8.5%
2023	88	11.4%
2024	97	12.6%
2025partial year	61	7.9%

Which technologies does Medtronic Minimed, 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 577

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 401

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 239

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 130

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 50

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 49

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 44

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 35

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 35

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 30

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 30

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 30

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

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 20

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 19

Top 15 of 82 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 Minimed, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Medtronic Minimed, 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), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #585 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Medtronic Minimed, Inc. against Novozymes A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.5/100 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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