Where does Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland ranks #7,307 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 Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland hold?

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's Innovation Score?

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland has an Innovation Score of 33.1 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland focus on?

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 45 patents, ranking #425 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's patents?

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's patents average 17.5 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 Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland 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

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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, Nellcor ranks #7,307 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 7 technology areas.

#7,307
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.1/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7307 · Foreign Corporation #7,307 · 45 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,307/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mapquest
CPC-NARROW A61B · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mapquest, 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 Nellcor’s 33.1 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 13.2 pts (40%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (28%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Vidyo · near

33
Deborah Adler · near

33
Nellcor Puritan… · this assignee

33
SawStop Holding · near

33
MaxPower Semiconductor · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nellcor's Innovation Score is 33.1/100 (43rd percentile 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 Nellcor?

Each dot is one of Nellcor’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). Nellcor’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nellcor's grants concentrate

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Nellcor sits between Mapquest, Inc. and Norco Industries, Inc..

Mapquest

45
Mexichem Amanco H…

45
Microvast Power S…

45
Moogsoft

45
Newport

45
Nippon Steel Niss…

45
Nissin ION Equipm…

45
Norco Industries

45
Nellcor Puritan B… ◀

45

What this shows Nellcor holds 45 patents at rank #7,304, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nellcor

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,304 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nellcor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Nellcor ranks #425 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

SawStop Holding LLC 33 Deborah Adler LLC 33 MaxPower Semiconductor Inc. 33 Vidyo, Inc. 33

Nellcor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	42.2%
2016	12	26.7%
2017	9	20.0%
2018	1	2.2%
2019	4	8.9%

Which technologies does Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 45

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #7,307 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland against Mapquest, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.1/100 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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