Where does NP Medical Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NP Medical Inc. ranks #12,144 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 NP Medical Inc. hold?

NP Medical Inc. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is NP Medical Inc.'s Innovation Score?

NP Medical Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.1 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is NP Medical Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NP Medical Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 NP Medical Inc.'s patents?

NP Medical 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 NP Medical 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

NP Medical Inc.

Q: What technology areas does NP Medical Inc. focus on?

NP Medical 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 24 patents, ranking #299 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 6 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, NP ranks #12,144 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 6 technology areas.

#12,144
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.1/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12144 · US Corporation #12,144 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,144/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Coupling
CPC-NARROW A61M · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Coupling Company, 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 NP’s 35.1 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 11.3 pts (32%) Velocity 3.0 pts (9%) Breadth 8.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gruppo Cimbali S p A · near

35
NP Medical · this assignee

35
Paragon 28 · near

35
Smart Packaging… · near

35
Syntropy Systems · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows NP's Innovation Score is 35.1/100 (top 50% 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 NP?

Each dot is one of NP’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). NP’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where NP's grants concentrate

NP Medical Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 96% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, NP sits between Nemaska Lithium Inc. and Nimbus Lakshmi, Inc..

NP's three-year grant acceleration

NP Medical Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Nemaska Lithium

25
Netzsch Pumpen &…

25
NKT HV Cables AB

25
Norsk Hydro ASA

25
Nuevolution A/S

25
National Coupling

25
Naver Business Pl…

25
Nimbus Lakshmi

25
NP Medical ◀

25

What this shows NP holds 25 patents at rank #12,135, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NP

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,135 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), NP ranks #299 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Gruppo Cimbali S.p.A. 35 Smart Packaging Solutions 35 Paragon 28, Inc. 35 Syntropy Systems, LLC 35

NP's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% 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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NP Medical Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	12.0%
2016	1	4.0%
2017	4	16.0%
2018	3	12.0%
2019	3	12.0%
2020	3	12.0%
2021	3	12.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	1	4.0%
2024	1	4.0%
2025partial year	1	4.0%

Which technologies does NP Medical 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 24

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 9

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 2

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 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

Top 6 of 6 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

NP Medical Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

NP Medical 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), 96% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #12,144 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NP Medical Inc. against Nemaska Lithium Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.1/100 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.

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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