Where does Surmodics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Surmodics, Inc. ranks #3,578 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 Surmodics, Inc. hold?

Surmodics, Inc. holds 103 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Surmodics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Surmodics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Surmodics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Surmodics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Surmodics, Inc.'s patents?

Surmodics, Inc.'s patents average 15.4 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 Surmodics, 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

Surmodics, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Surmodics, Inc. focus on?

Surmodics, Inc.'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 64 patents, ranking #36 of 2,589 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 103 granted patents across 30 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, Surmodics ranks #3,578 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 103 patents across 30 technology areas.

#3,578
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3578 · US Corporation #3,578 · 103 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 103 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,578/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ratier-figeac SAS
CPC-FOCUS A61L · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ratier-figeac SAS (±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 Surmodics’s 48.5 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 16.0 pts (33%) Velocity 3.8 pts (8%) Breadth 19.4 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ChampionX USA · near

48
Sungwoo Hitech · near

48
Treace Medical… · near

48
Bunn-O-Matic · near

48
Surmodics · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Surmodics's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 17% 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 Surmodics?

Each dot is one of Surmodics’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). Surmodics’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Surmodics's grants concentrate

Surmodics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 62.1% of grants classified under 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;). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (13 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2024. By volume, Surmodics sits between Ratier-figeac SAS and Valmet Technologies Oy.

Surmodics's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Surmodics, Inc. moved from 33 to 19 grants (0.58x 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 #2,503. See the growth leaderboard.

Ratier-figeac SAS

103
Rigetti &

103
Suzhou China Star…

103
Solenis

103
Synaptics Japan GK

103
Totalenergies One…

103
UniversitÉ Paris…

103
Valmet Oy

103
Surmodics ◀

103

What this shows Surmodics holds 103 patents at rank #3,579, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Surmodics

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,579 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Surmodics, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61L (Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects…), Surmodics ranks #36 of 2,589 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Bunn-O-Matic Corporation 48 Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. 48 Sungwoo Hitech Co., Ltd. 48 ChampionX USA Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Magna Seating Inc. 15.4 avg Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC 15.4 avg Wabco GmbH 15.4 avg Veltek Associates, Inc. 15.4 avg

Surmodics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Surmodics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	12.6%
2016	11	10.7%
2017	13	12.6%
2018	12	11.7%
2019	13	12.6%
2020	7	6.8%
2021	13	12.6%
2022	8	7.8%
2023	6	5.8%
2024	5	4.9%
2025partial year	2	1.9%

Which technologies does Surmodics, Inc. 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 64

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 46

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 32

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 12

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 10

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 9

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 8

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 8

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 5

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 5

Top 15 of 30 technology areas

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What to do with this data

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Surmodics, Inc.'s lead technology class 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;), 62.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61L
Ranked #3,578 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Surmodics, Inc. against Ratier-figeac SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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

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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

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