Is Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna's recent grant velocity is +113% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna

Q: Where does Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna ranks #11,426 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna 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 - 27 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: B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Scuola ranks #11,426 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 25 technology areas.

#11,426
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.7/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: +113%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11426 · Foreign Corporation #11,426 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,426/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saban Ventures PTY
CPC-FOCUS B25J · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +113% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saban Ventures PTY Limited (±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 Scuola’s 48.7 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 11.5 pts (24%) Velocity 12.2 pts (25%) Breadth 17.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
George Mason… · near

49
Intellectual… · near

49
Nanjing Forestry… · near

49
Scuola Superiore di… · this assignee

49
SprintRay · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Scuola's Innovation Score is 48.7/100 (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 Scuola?

Each dot is one of Scuola’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). Scuola’s own 12.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Scuola's grants concentrate

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 40.7% of grants classified under B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Scuola sits between Summit ESP, LLC and Siemens Canada Limited.

Scuola's three-year grant acceleration

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Summit ESP

27
Saban Ventures PTY

27
Sarong Societa' P…

27
Savage Arms

27
Seaspine

27
Seres Therapeutics

27
Series Internatio…

27
Siemens Canada

27
Scuola Superiore… ◀

27

What this shows Scuola holds 27 patents at rank #11,438, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Scuola

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,438 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25J (Manipulators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Scuola, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25J (Manipulators), Scuola ranks #176 of 1,442 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Nanjing Forestry University 49 SprintRay, Inc. 49 George Mason Research Foundation, Inc. 49 Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC 49

Scuola'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

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.7%
2016	4	14.8%
2017	2	7.4%
2018	1	3.7%
2020	5	18.5%
2021	1	3.7%
2022	5	18.5%
2023	3	11.1%
2024	3	11.1%
2025partial year	2	7.4%

Which technologies does Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna patent most?

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 11

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 10

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 5

F16H - Gearing 4

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 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

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

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 2

H04B - Transmission 2

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 2

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 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna's lead technology class is B25J (MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices), 40.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25J
Ranked #11,426 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna against Summit ESP, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.7/100 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.