Where does Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. ranks #730 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 Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. hold?

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. holds 623 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. focus on?

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 386 patents, ranking #45 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

Is Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s patents?

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s patents average 16.7 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.

How is the Siemens Medical Solutions USA, 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

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 623 granted patents across 85 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, Siemens ranks #730 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 623 patents across 85 technology areas.

#730
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.8/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R730 · US Corporation #730 · 623 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 623 grants
TOP-DECILE #730/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Inventio
CPC-WIDE A61B · 85 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Inventio AG (±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 Siemens’s 64.8 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 22.2 pts (34%) Velocity 7.5 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Audi · near

65
North Carolina… · near

65
Danfoss Power… · near

65
Saint-gobain Glass… · near

65
Siemens Medical… · this assignee

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Siemens's Innovation Score is 64.8/100 (top 1% 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 Siemens?

Each dot is one of Siemens’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). Siemens’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Siemens's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. received 245 grants versus 347 in 2015–2019 (-29% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 105 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 38. Lead class A61B accounts for 62% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Inventec (PUDONG) Technology Corporation (#726) and Baxter International Inc. (#734).

Siemens's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. moved from 139 to 156 grants (1.12x 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 #918. See the growth leaderboard.

Inventec (Pudong)…

629
Lennox Industries

629
Spotify AB

626
Inventio

623
Siemens Medical S… ◀

623
Helen OF Troy

622
King Saud Univers…

622
Osram

622
Baxter Internatio…

620

What this shows Siemens holds 623 patents at rank #730, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Siemens

By rank, the assignees closest to #730 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Siemens, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Siemens ranks #45 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Saint-gobain Glass France 65 Danfoss Power Solutions II Technology A/S 65 North Carolina State University 65 Audi AG 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Biomet Manufacturing, LLC 16.7 avg Texas Instruments Incorporated 16.7 avg The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma 16.7 avg CreateMe Technologies Inc. 16.7 avg

Siemens's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	105	16.9%
2016	93	14.9%
2017	61	9.8%
2018	38	6.1%
2019	50	8.0%
2020	47	7.5%
2021	42	6.7%
2022	53	8.5%
2023	55	8.8%
2024	48	7.7%
2025partial year	31	5.0%

Which technologies does Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 386

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 201

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 111

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 85

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 80

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 66

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 30

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 30

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 27

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 20

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 18

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 17

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 17

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

Top 15 of 85 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

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 62% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #730 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. against Inventec (PUDONG) Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.8/100 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

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