Where does Suture Ease, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suture Ease, Inc. ranks #18,152 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 Suture Ease, Inc. hold?

Suture Ease, Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Suture Ease, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Suture Ease, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 25.2 out of 100 (17th 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 Suture Ease, Inc. focus on?

Suture Ease, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 16 patents, ranking #1,103 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

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

Suture Ease, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Suture Ease, Inc.'s patents?

Suture Ease, Inc.'s patents average 11.9 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 Suture Ease, 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

Suture Ease, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 1 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suture ranks #18,152 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 1 technology areas.

#18,152
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 17th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.2/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18152 · US Corporation #18,152 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,152/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Stone Lock Global
CPC-NARROW A61B · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Stone Lock Global, 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 Suture’s 25.2 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 9.8 pts (39%) Velocity 4.8 pts (19%) Breadth 3.5 pts (14%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Suture Ease · this assignee

25
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Suture's Innovation Score is 25.2/100 (17th 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 Suture?

Each dot is one of Suture’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). Suture’s own 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Suture's grants concentrate

Suture Ease, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Suture sits between Stone Lock Global, Inc. and Sysgration Ltd..

Suture's three-year grant acceleration

Suture Ease, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Stone Lock Global

16
Stowers Institute…

16
Strategic Sports

16
Supfina Grieshabe…

16
Suzhou Ribo Life…

16
SVM Schultz Verwa…

16
Synedgen

16
Sysgration

16
Suture Ease ◀

16

What this shows Suture holds 16 patents at rank #18,110, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suture

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,110 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Suture's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 17th percentile higher than 17% 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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Suture Ease, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	12.5%
2017	1	6.3%
2019	3	18.8%
2020	3	18.8%
2021	1	6.3%
2022	3	18.8%
2023	1	6.3%
2024	1	6.3%
2025partial year	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Suture Ease, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 16

Top 1 of 1 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

Suture Ease, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Suture Ease, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #18,152 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suture Ease, Inc. against Stone Lock Global, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.2/100 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.