Where does Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC ranks #16,383 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 Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC hold?

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is +83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's patents?

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's patents average 19.5 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 Spinal Stabilization Technologies 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

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC

Q: What technology areas does Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC focus on?

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's top technology area is 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) with 14 patents, ranking #463 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Spinal ranks #16,383 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 4 technology areas.

#16,383
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16383 · US Corporation #16,383 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,383/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Smart Iops
CPC-NARROW A61F · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Smart Iops, Inc. (±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 Spinal’s 42.3 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 (24%) Velocity 13.3 pts (31%) Breadth 7.1 pts (17%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Spinal Stabilization · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Spinal's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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 Spinal?

Each dot is one of Spinal’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). Spinal’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Spinal's grants concentrate

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under 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 Device). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Spinal sits between Smart Iops, Inc. and STMicroelectronics Razvoj Polprevodnikov D.O.O..

Spinal's three-year grant acceleration

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Smart Iops

18
Somnics

18
Soudronic

18
Sphingotec

18
SSI

18
Starconn (Su Zhou)

18
Stiebel Eltron &…

18
Stmicroelectronic…

18
Spinal Stabilizat… ◀

18

What this shows Spinal holds 18 patents at rank #16,349, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Spinal

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,349 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Spinal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	11.1%
2017	2	11.1%
2018	1	5.6%
2019	1	5.6%
2020	3	16.7%
2022	3	16.7%
2023	5	27.8%
2025partial year	1	5.6%

Which technologies does Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC patent most?

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 14

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

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 3

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

Top 4 of 4 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

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC's lead technology class is 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 Device), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #16,383 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Spinal Stabilization Technologies LLC against Smart Iops, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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

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