Where does Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. ranks #6,175 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 Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. hold?

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. focus on?

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 50 patents, ranking #377 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s patents?

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s patents average 14.3 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 Microport Orthopedics Holdings, 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

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 13 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, Microport ranks #6,175 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 13 technology areas.

#6,175
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6175 · Foreign Corporation #6,175 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,175/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Liebherr-werk Nenzing
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Liebherr-werk Nenzing GMBH (±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 Microport’s 46.9 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 13.9 pts (30%) Velocity 11.7 pts (25%) Breadth 12.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Handylab · near

47
Inertech IP · near

47
Microport Orthopedic… · this assignee

47
Nissei Plastic… · near

47
Spero Therapeutics · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Microport's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 Microport?

Each dot is one of Microport’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). Microport’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Microport's grants concentrate

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Microport sits between Liebherr-werk Nenzing GMBH and Minimax Viking Research & Development GmbH.

Microport's three-year grant acceleration

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Liebherr-werk Nen…

55
MAG Aerospace Ind…

55
MAN Truck & Bus SE

55
Medicrea Internat…

55
Mahle Filter Syst…

55
Metso Minerals

55
Micro Focus Softw…

55
Minimax Viking Re…

55
Microport Orthope… ◀

55

What this shows Microport holds 55 patents at rank #6,171, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Microport

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,171 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Microport, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Microport ranks #377 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Inertech IP LLC 47 Nissei Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. 47 Handylab, Inc. 47 Spero Therapeutics, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Plansee SE 14.3 avg Rohinni, Inc. 14.3 avg Silk Road Medical, Inc. 14.3 avg NxStage Medical, Inc. 14.3 avg

Microport's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	16.4%
2016	6	10.9%
2017	9	16.4%
2018	4	7.3%
2019	3	5.5%
2020	1	1.8%
2021	4	7.3%
2022	8	14.5%
2023	2	3.6%
2024	4	7.3%
2025partial year	5	9.1%

Which technologies does Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 50

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 38

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 13

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 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

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 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #6,175 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Microport Orthopedics Holdings, Inc. against Liebherr-werk Nenzing GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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.

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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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