Where does Seattle Children's Hospital rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Seattle Children's Hospital ranks #4,394 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 Seattle Children's Hospital hold?

Seattle Children's Hospital holds 81 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Seattle Children's Hospital's Innovation Score?

Seattle Children's Hospital has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Seattle Children's Hospital focus on?

Seattle Children's Hospital's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 64 patents, ranking #311 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Seattle Children's Hospital's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Seattle Children's Hospital's recent grant velocity is +367% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Seattle Children's Hospital's patents?

Seattle Children's Hospital's patents average 20.4 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 Seattle Children's Hospital 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

Seattle Children's Hospital

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 81 granted patents across 24 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, Seattle ranks #4,394 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 81 patents across 24 technology areas.

#4,394
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +367%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4394 · US Corporation #4,394 · 81 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 81 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,394/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pierre Fabre…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +367% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pierre Fabre MÉDICAMENT (±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 Seattle’s 56.6 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 15.2 pts (27%) Velocity 11.8 pts (21%) Breadth 17.3 pts (31%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Mobile… · near

57
Content Square SAS · near

57
Seattle Children's… · this assignee

57
Kulicke and Soffa… · near

57
Uacj · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Seattle's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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 Seattle?

Each dot is one of Seattle’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). Seattle’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Seattle's grants concentrate

Seattle Children's Hospital is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 79% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Seattle sits between Pierre Fabre MÉDICAMENT and THE Watt Stopper, Inc..

Seattle's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Seattle Children's Hospital moved from 22 to 39 grants (1.77x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Pierre Fabre MÉDi…

81
Poly-america

81
Rex Medical

81
Shinshu University

81
Sercomm

81
Sheltered Wings

81
Surpass Industry

81
THE Watt Stopper

81
Seattle Children'… ◀

81

What this shows Seattle holds 81 patents at rank #4,394, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Seattle

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,394 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Seattle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Seattle ranks #311 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Content Square SAS 57 Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. 57 Uacj Corporation 57 China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

Clemson University 20.4 avg Ipgate AG 20.4 avg Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation 20.4 avg Broadcom Corporation 20.4 avg

Seattle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Seattle Children's Hospital patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.2%
2016	3	3.7%
2017	1	1.2%
2018	2	2.5%
2019	5	6.2%
2020	10	12.3%
2021	7	8.6%
2022	13	16.0%
2023	13	16.0%
2024	13	16.0%
2025partial year	13	16.0%

Which technologies does Seattle Children's Hospital patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 64

C07K - Peptides 60

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 48

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 47

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 14

C12Y - Enzymes 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

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 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 2

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

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 2

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 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 2

Top 15 of 24 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

Seattle Children's Hospital's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Seattle Children's Hospital's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 79% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #4,394 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Seattle Children's Hospital against Pierre Fabre MÉDICAMENT, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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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