Where does Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation ranks #3,185 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 Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation hold?

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation holds 118 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's Innovation Score?

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation has an Innovation Score of 53.8 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation focus on?

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 38 patents, ranking #502 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

Is Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's recent grant velocity is +6% 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 Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's patents?

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's patents average 10.8 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 Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation 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

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 118 granted patents across 50 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Samsung ranks #3,185 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 118 patents across 50 technology areas.

#3,185
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.8/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3185 · Foreign Corporation #3,185 · 118 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 118 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,185/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nexperia B V
CPC-WIDE A61B · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nexperia B.V. (±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 Samsung’s 53.8 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 16.5 pts (31%) Velocity 5.8 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.5 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Faurecia Automotive… · near

54
Instituto Mexicano… · near

54
Samsung Life Public… · this assignee

54
Yandex Europe · near

54
ZF Active Safety US · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Samsung's Innovation Score is 53.8/100 (top 8% 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 Samsung?

Each dot is one of Samsung’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). Samsung’s own 10.8 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Samsung's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation received 55 grants versus 52 in 2015–2019 (+6% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 16 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class A61B accounts for 32.2% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd. (#3,181) and Universite DE Nantes (#3,189).

Samsung's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation moved from 38 to 33 grants (0.87x 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 #1,603. See the growth leaderboard.

Nishikawa Rubber

118
Nexperia B V

118
Optim

118
Ontel Products

118
Sitime

118
The Medical Colle…

118
The University of…

118
Universite DE Nan…

118
Samsung Life Publ… ◀

118

What this shows Samsung holds 118 patents at rank #3,185, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Samsung

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,185 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Samsung, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Samsung ranks #502 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo 54 Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC 54 ZF Active Safety US Inc. 54 Yandex Europe AG 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.8 here).

Takasago International Corporation 10.8 avg Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation 10.8 avg National University Corporation Kobe University 10.8 avg Nikola Corporation 10.8 avg

Samsung's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.5%
2016	10	8.5%
2017	8	6.8%
2018	15	12.7%
2019	16	13.6%
2020	11	9.3%
2021	11	9.3%
2022	10	8.5%
2023	12	10.2%
2024	11	9.3%
2025partial year	11	9.3%

Which technologies does Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 38

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 35

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 29

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 19

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 18

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 18

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

C07K - Peptides 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 10

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

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 4

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 3

Top 15 of 50 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

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 32.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #3,185 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation against Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.8/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.