Where does Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute ranks #4,060 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's Innovation Score?

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute has an Innovation Score of 48.4 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's recent grant velocity is +281% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's patents?

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's patents average 15.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Q: How many patents does Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute hold?

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute holds 89 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute focus on?

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 70 patents, ranking #242 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute 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 PatentsView assignee record - 89 granted patents across 25 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sanford ranks #4,060 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 89 patents across 25 technology areas.

#4,060
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.4/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +281%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4060 · US Corporation #4,060 · 89 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 89 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,060/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NthDegree Worldwide
CPC-FOCUS A61P · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +281% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NthDegree Technologies Worldwide 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 Sanford’s 48.4 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 15.5 pts (32%) Velocity 5.8 pts (12%) Breadth 17.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amvac Chemical · near

48
Jtekt Europe · near

48
Lutronic · near

48
Sanford Burnham… · this assignee

48
Trinity Industrial · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sanford's Innovation Score is 48.4/100 (top 17% 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 Sanford?

Each dot is one of Sanford’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). Sanford’s own 15.7 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Sanford's grants concentrate

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 78.7% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Sanford sits between NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc and Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd..

Sanford's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute moved from 38 to 33 grants (0.87x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Nthdegree Worldwi…

89
Pregis Innovative…

89
RAB Lighting

89
Reald

89
Sony

89
Soucy Internation…

89
Semmle

89
Sharp NEC Display…

89
Sanford Burnham P… ◀

89

What this shows Sanford holds 89 patents at rank #4,060, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sanford

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,060 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sanford, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), Sanford ranks #242 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Jtekt Europe 48 Lutronic Corporation 48 Amvac Chemical Corporation 48 Trinity Industrial Corporation 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research 15.7 avg Kakao Corp. 15.7 avg Vital Connect, Inc. 15.7 avg Entrust Corporation 15.7 avg

Sanford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.1%
2018	5	5.6%
2019	10	11.2%
2020	18	20.2%
2021	10	11.2%
2022	10	11.2%
2023	9	10.1%
2024	14	15.7%
2025partial year	12	13.5%

Which technologies does Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 70

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 64

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 47

C07K - Peptides 32

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 15

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 9

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 7

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 7

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 4

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 3

C12Y - Enzymes 3

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 2

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 2

Top 15 of 25 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

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 78.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #4,060 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute against NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.4/100 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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