Where does Regents of the University of Minnesota rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Regents of the University of Minnesota ranks #418 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 Regents of the University of Minnesota hold?

Regents of the University of Minnesota holds 1,081 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 257 technology areas.

What is Regents of the University of Minnesota's Innovation Score?

Regents of the University of Minnesota has an Innovation Score of 64.9 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%).

What technology areas does Regents of the University of Minnesota focus on?

Regents of the University of Minnesota's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 267 patents, ranking #58 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 257 CPC subclasses total.

Is Regents of the University of Minnesota's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Regents of the University of Minnesota's recent grant velocity is +30% 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 Regents of the University of Minnesota's patents?

Regents of the University of Minnesota's patents average 17.4 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 Regents of the University of Minnesota 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

Regents of the University of Minnesota

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,081 granted patents across 257 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Regents ranks #418 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,081 patents across 257 technology areas.

#418
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.9/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R418 · US Corporation #418 · 1,081 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #418/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CA
CPC-BROAD A61K · 257 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CA, 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 Regents’s 64.9 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 24.1 pts (37%) Velocity 5.3 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dolby Laboratories… · near

65
Mako Surgical · near

65
Regents of the… · this assignee

65
Salesforce com · near

65
STMicroelectronics… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Regents's Innovation Score is 64.9/100 (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 Regents?

Each dot is one of Regents’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). Regents’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Regents's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Regents of the University of Minnesota received 571 grants versus 440 in 2015–2019 (+30% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 136 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 55. Lead class A61K accounts for 24.7% of the portfolio across 257 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (#414) and Hitachi High-tech Corporation (#422).

Regents's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Regents of the University of Minnesota moved from 384 to 305 grants (0.79x 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 #1,861. See the growth leaderboard.

Yangtze Memory

1,087
The Trustees of C…

1,086
University of Sou…

1,086
CA

1,081
Regents of the Un… ◀

1,081
Rohde & Schwarz &…

1,078
Fisher & Paykel H…

1,077
Screen Holdings

1,077
Hitachi High-tech

1,071

What this shows Regents holds 1,081 patents at rank #418, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Regents

By rank, the assignees closest to #418 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Regents, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Regents ranks #58 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation 65 Salesforce.com, Inc. 65 Mako Surgical Corp. 65 STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Lear Corporation 17.4 avg TPK Touch Solutions (XIAMEN) Inc. 17.4 avg TPK Advanced Solutions Inc. 17.4 avg Chevron U.S.A. Inc. 17.4 avg

Regents's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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.

View data table

Regents of the University of Minnesota patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	55	5.1%
2016	69	6.4%
2017	89	8.2%
2018	109	10.1%
2019	118	10.9%
2020	136	12.6%
2021	130	12.0%
2022	102	9.4%
2023	98	9.1%
2024	105	9.7%
2025partial year	70	6.5%

Which technologies does Regents of the University of Minnesota patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 267

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 186

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 173

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 141

C07K - Peptides 122

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 120

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 83

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 61

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 60

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 56

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 43

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 41

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 38

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 36

C12Y - Enzymes 35

Top 15 of 257 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

Regents of the University of Minnesota's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Regents of the University of Minnesota's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 24.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #418 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Regents of the University of Minnesota against Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.9/100 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

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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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