Where does Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. ranks #2,386 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 Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. hold?

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. holds 164 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.4 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%).

Is Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s patents?

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s patents average 13.0 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 Smiths Medical ASD, 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

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. focus on?

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 111 patents, ranking #69 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 164 granted patents across 35 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Smiths ranks #2,386 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 164 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,386
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.4/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2386 · US Corporation #2,386 · 164 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 164 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,386/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nippon Soda
CPC-FOCUS A61M · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. (±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 Smiths’s 54.4 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 17.6 pts (32%) Velocity 8.0 pts (15%) Breadth 20.9 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Landa · near

54
Radiant Opto- · near

54
Smiths Medical ASD · this assignee

54
Teledyne Scientific… · near

54
University OF Tsukuba · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Smiths's Innovation Score is 54.4/100 (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 Smiths?

Each dot is one of Smiths’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). Smiths’s own 13.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Smiths's grants concentrate

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 67.7% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (35 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2017. By volume, Smiths sits between Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. and X-Celeprint Limited.

Smiths's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. moved from 39 to 47 grants (1.21x 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 #776. See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Soda

164
SII Semiconductor

164
Smith & Nephew As…

164
Solvay

164
THE Board OF Trus…

164
THE Japan Steel W…

164
Univation

164
X-celeprint

164
Smiths Medical ASD ◀

164

What this shows Smiths holds 164 patents at rank #2,387, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Smiths

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,387 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Smiths, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Smiths ranks #69 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation 54 University OF Tsukuba 54 Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC 54 Landa Corporation Ltd. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

The Sherwin-Williams Company 13.0 avg Bissell Homecare, Inc. 13.0 avg Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc. 13.0 avg Gates Corporation 13.0 avg

Smiths'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.

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Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	11.0%
2016	13	7.9%
2017	11	6.7%
2018	35	21.3%
2019	16	9.8%
2020	12	7.3%
2021	11	6.7%
2022	16	9.8%
2023	20	12.2%
2024	11	6.7%
2025partial year	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. patent most?

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 111

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 33

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 27

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 7

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 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

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 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

Top 15 of 35 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

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 67.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #2,386 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. against Nippon Soda Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.4/100 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.

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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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