Where does Retractable Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Retractable Technologies, Inc. ranks #7,612 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 Retractable Technologies, Inc. hold?

Retractable Technologies, Inc. holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Retractable Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Retractable Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 28.3 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Retractable Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Retractable Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Retractable Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Retractable Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 10.2 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 Retractable Technologies, 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

Retractable Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Retractable Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Retractable Technologies, 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 28 patents, ranking #251 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 4 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, Retractable ranks #7,612 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 4 technology areas.

#7,612
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.3/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7612 · US Corporation #7,612 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,612/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Promier Products
CPC-NARROW A61M · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Promier Products 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 Retractable’s 28.3 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 13.1 pts (46%) Velocity 2.1 pts (7%) Breadth 7.1 pts (25%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sckipio S I · near

28
Mastercard Mobile… · near

28
Retractable · this assignee

28
Samsung Electro-mech… · near

28
humangear · near

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Retractable's Innovation Score is 28.3/100 (27th 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 Retractable?

Each dot is one of Retractable’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). Retractable’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 12.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Retractable's grants concentrate

Retractable Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 65.1% 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 2021 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Retractable sits between Promier Products Inc. and Shibuya Corporation.

Retractable's three-year grant acceleration

Retractable Technologies, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Promier Products

43
Qnap Systems

43
Quick Fitting Hol…

43
Radiometer Medica…

43
Roxtec AB

43
Rubicon Global Ho…

43
SGL Carbon SE

43
Shibuya

43
Retractable ◀

43

What this shows Retractable holds 43 patents at rank #7,612, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Retractable

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,612 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Retractable, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Retractable ranks #251 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (28 here).

Mastercard Mobile Transactions Solutions, Inc. 28 Samsung Electro-mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd. 28 humangear, inc. 28 Sckipio Technologies S.I Ltd. 28

Retractable's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 27th percentile higher than 27% 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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Retractable Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.3%
2016	7	16.3%
2017	4	9.3%
2018	7	16.3%
2019	3	7.0%
2020	5	11.6%
2021	8	18.6%
2022	1	2.3%
2023	1	2.3%
2024	3	7.0%
2025partial year	3	7.0%

Which technologies does Retractable Technologies, 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 28

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 11

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Retractable Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Retractable Technologies, 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), 65.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #7,612 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Retractable Technologies, Inc. against Promier Products Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.3/100 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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