Where does Steris Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Steris Corporation ranks #9,382 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Steris Corporation hold?

Steris Corporation holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Steris Corporation's Innovation Score?

Steris Corporation has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Steris Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Steris Corporation's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Steris Corporation's patents?

Steris Corporation's patents average 14.5 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 Steris Corporation 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

Steris Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Steris Corporation focus on?

Steris Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 22 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 23 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: 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;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Steris ranks #9,382 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 23 technology areas.

#9,382
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9382 · US Corporation #9,382 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,382/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Sakata Seed America
CPC-FOCUS A61L · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sakata Seed America, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ensyn Renewables · near

42
Location Labs · near

42
Lund · near

42
Steris · this assignee

42
THE DUN & Bradstreet · near

42
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Steris Corporation stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #9,382 of 50,000; Innovation Score 41.8/100 sits in the top 32% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Sakata Seed America, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Steris Corporation has been granted 34 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Steris Corporation at #9,382 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 23 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.5 claims per patent with primary concentration in 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;). As a US Corporation, Steris Corporation is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Steris sits between Smart N.v. (34 patents, rank #9,367) and Samsara Networks Inc. (34 patents, rank #9,375) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 41.8/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 9 grants, compared with 21 in the 2015–2019 window, a -57% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Steris Corporation's 14.5 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 23 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Smart

34
Sophia & William…

34
Sophia School

34
Stego-holding

34
Streem

34
Syncrude Canada

34
Sakata Seed Ameri…

34
Samsara Networks

34
Steris ◀

34

What this shows Steris holds 34 patents at rank #9,371, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Steris

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,371 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61L (Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Steris, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Lund, Inc. 42 Ensyn Renewables, Inc. 42 THE DUN & Bradstreet Corporation 42 Location Labs, Inc. 42

Steris's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 50,000 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.

View data table

Steris Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	8.8%
2016	4	11.8%
2017	3	8.8%
2018	9	26.5%
2019	2	5.9%
2020	3	8.8%
2021	2	5.9%
2022	1	2.9%
2023	2	5.9%
2024	1	2.9%
2025partial year	4	11.8%

Which technologies does Steris Corporation patent most?

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 22

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 7

B08B - CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL 7

A47L - DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING ; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL 5

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 3

B05B - SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES 3

B01L - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 2

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

A23V - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION 2

A23B - PRESERVATION OF FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES 2

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 2

G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME 2

D06F - LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES 2

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,382

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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