Where does Stryker European Operations Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stryker European Operations Limited ranks #1,174 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 Stryker European Operations Limited hold?

Stryker European Operations Limited holds 363 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Stryker European Operations Limited's Innovation Score?

Stryker European Operations Limited has an Innovation Score of 75.5 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 Stryker European Operations Limited focus on?

Stryker European Operations Limited's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 304 patents, ranking #70 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Stryker European Operations Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stryker European Operations Limited's recent grant velocity is +29600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Stryker European Operations Limited's patents?

Stryker European Operations Limited's patents average 16.8 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 Stryker European Operations Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Stryker European Operations Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 363 granted patents across 55 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Stryker ranks #1,174 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 363 patents across 55 technology areas.

#1,174
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (75.5/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +29600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1174 · Foreign Corporation #1,174 · 363 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 363 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,174/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ability Opto-…
CPC-WIDE A61B · 55 areas
INNOV-STRONG 75.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +29600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ability Opto-electronics Technology 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 Stryker’s 75.5 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 20.4 pts (27%) Velocity 20.0 pts (26%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Marathon Petroleum · near

76
Canon · near

76
Stryker European… · this assignee

75
Wells Fargo Bank N A · near

75
Hitachi Astemo · near

75
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stryker's Innovation Score is 75.5/100 (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 Stryker?

Each dot is one of Stryker’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). Stryker’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Stryker's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Stryker European Operations Limited received 297 grants versus 1 in 2015–2019 (+29600% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 88 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 1. Lead class A61B accounts for 83.7% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ability Opto-electronics Technology Co., Ltd. (#1,170) and Stryker European Holdings, LLC (#1,178).

Stryker's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stryker European Operations Limited moved from 66 to 232 grants (3.52x 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 #62. See the growth leaderboard.

Ability Opto- Tec…

363
Fenwal

363
Nippon Electric G…

363
Sigmasense

363
Stryker European… ◀

363
Coupang

362
Plantronics

362
Soochow University

362
Stryker European…

362

What this shows Stryker holds 363 patents at rank #1,174, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stryker

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,174 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stryker, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Stryker ranks #70 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (75 here).

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 76 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 75 Marathon Petroleum Company LP 76 Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. 75

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Activision Publishing, Inc. 16.8 avg DJO, LLC 16.8 avg Ovonyx Memory Technology, LLC 16.8 avg InContact Inc. 16.8 avg

Stryker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

75 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 · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Stryker European Operations Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	0.3%
2020	12	3.3%
2021	53	14.6%
2022	63	17.4%
2023	81	22.3%
2024	88	24.2%
2025partial year	65	17.9%

Which technologies does Stryker European Operations Limited patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 304

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 86

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 33

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 24

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 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

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 11

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 8

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 4

Top 15 of 55 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

Stryker European Operations Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stryker European Operations Limited's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 83.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,174 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stryker European Operations Limited against Ability Opto-electronics Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 75.5/100 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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