Where does Southern Spine, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Southern Spine, LLC ranks #16,379 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 Southern Spine, LLC hold?

Southern Spine, LLC holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Southern Spine, LLC's Innovation Score?

Southern Spine, LLC has an Innovation Score of 31.8 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Southern Spine, LLC focus on?

Southern Spine, LLC's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 15 patents, ranking #1,165 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Is Southern Spine, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Southern Spine, LLC's recent grant velocity is -36% 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 Southern Spine, LLC's patents?

Southern Spine, LLC's patents average 20.3 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 Southern Spine, LLC 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

Southern Spine, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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, Southern ranks #16,379 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 2 technology areas.

#16,379
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.8/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16379 · US Corporation #16,379 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,379/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Snow
CPC-NARROW A61B · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Snow Corporation (±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 Southern’s 31.8 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 10.2 pts (32%) Velocity 4.4 pts (14%) Breadth 5.0 pts (16%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (38%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Southern Spine · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Southern's Innovation Score is 31.8/100 (39th percentile 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 Southern?

Each dot is one of Southern’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). Southern’s own 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Southern's grants concentrate

Southern Spine, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Southern sits between Snow Corporation and Springs Window Fashions, LLC.

Southern's three-year grant acceleration

Southern Spine, LLC shows 4 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.

Snow

18
Solar-tectic

18
Solus Advanced Ma…

18
Sonicsensory

18
Specialty Granule…

18
Spike's Tactical

18
Spirax-sarco

18
Springs Window Fa…

18
Southern Spine ◀

18

What this shows Southern holds 18 patents at rank #16,388, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Southern

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,388 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Southern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Southern Spine, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.6%
2017	2	11.1%
2018	5	27.8%
2019	3	16.7%
2020	2	11.1%
2021	1	5.6%
2022	1	5.6%
2023	1	5.6%
2024	2	11.1%

Which technologies does Southern Spine, LLC patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 15

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

Top 2 of 2 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

Southern Spine, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Southern Spine, LLC's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #16,379 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Southern Spine, LLC against Snow Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.8/100 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

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.