Where does Ossur HF rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ossur HF ranks #2,015 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 Ossur HF hold?

Ossur HF holds 198 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Ossur HF's Innovation Score?

Ossur HF has an Innovation Score of 48.8 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ossur HF's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ossur HF's recent grant velocity is -63% 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 Ossur HF's patents?

Ossur HF'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 Ossur HF 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

Ossur HF

Q: What technology areas does Ossur HF focus on?

Ossur HF's top technology area is 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) with 186 patents, ranking #32 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 198 granted patents across 28 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: 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 Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ossur ranks #2,015 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 198 patents across 28 technology areas.

#2,015
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.8/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2015 · Foreign Corporation #2,015 · 198 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 198 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,015/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CrossBar
CPC-FOCUS A61F · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CrossBar, 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 Ossur’s 48.8 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 18.3 pts (37%) Velocity 3.3 pts (7%) Breadth 18.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avigilon · near

49
Cimpress Schweiz · near

49
Ossur HF · this assignee

49
Trumpf Maschinen… · near

49
Unify Patente & KG · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ossur's Innovation Score is 48.8/100 (top 16% 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 Ossur?

Each dot is one of Ossur’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). Ossur’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ossur's grants concentrate

Ossur HF is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 93.9% of grants classified under 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 Device). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (37 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2024. By volume, Ossur sits between Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC and State Grid Corporation of China.

Ossur's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ossur HF moved from 47 to 23 grants (0.49x 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 #2,719. See the growth leaderboard.

Sorenson IP Holdi…

199
Valeo North Ameri…

199
Crossbar

198
Lagree

198
Pacific Market In…

198
Saint-gobain Abra…

198
Suntory Holdings

198
State Grid of Chi…

198
Ossur HF ◀

198

What this shows Ossur holds 198 patents at rank #2,015, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ossur

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,015 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ossur, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels), Ossur ranks #32 of 3,082 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Avigilon Corporation 49 Unify Patente GMBH & Co. KG 49 Trumpf Maschinen Austria GmbH & Co. KG 49 Cimpress Schweiz GMBH 49

Similar claim depth

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

Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. 14.3 avg Sulzer Mixpac AG 14.3 avg Elemental LED, Inc. 14.3 avg Albert Einstein College of Medicine 14.3 avg

Ossur's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Ossur HF patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	31	15.7%
2016	36	18.2%
2017	37	18.7%
2018	21	10.6%
2019	17	8.6%
2020	20	10.1%
2021	10	5.1%
2022	13	6.6%
2023	6	3.0%
2024	4	2.0%
2025partial year	3	1.5%

Which technologies does Ossur HF patent most?

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 186

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 7

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 6

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 5

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

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 4

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 3

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

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

A61H - Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body 2

D04B - Knitting 2

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 2

Top 15 of 28 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

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Ossur HF's lead technology class is 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 Device), 93.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #2,015 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ossur HF against Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.8/100 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

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