Where does Symbolics Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Symbolics Inc. ranks #20,481 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 Symbolics Inc. hold?

Symbolics Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Symbolics Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Symbolics Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Symbolics Inc. focus on?

Symbolics Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 8 patents, ranking #2,086 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Symbolics Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +60% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Symbolics Inc.'s patents?

Symbolics Inc.'s patents average 37.6 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 Symbolics 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

Symbolics Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Symbolics ranks #20,481 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 6 technology areas.

#20,481
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 37.6
avg claims per patent: +60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20481 · US Corporation #20,481 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,481/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SafeAI
CPC-NARROW A61B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 37.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SafeAI, 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 Symbolics’s 36.4 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 9.4 pts (26%) Velocity 3.3 pts (9%) Breadth 8.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (41%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Symbolics · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Symbolics's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 47% 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 Symbolics?

Each dot is one of Symbolics’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). Symbolics’s own 37.6 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.

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

Where Symbolics's grants concentrate

Symbolics Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Symbolics sits between Stimscience Inc. and SafeWorks, LLC.

Symbolics's three-year grant acceleration

Symbolics Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Stimscience

14
Strix

14
Sunfolding

14
Surys

14
System S P A

14
Safeai

14
Safetraces

14
Safeworks

14
Symbolics ◀

14

What this shows Symbolics holds 14 patents at rank #20,409, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Symbolics

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,409 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Symbolics's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Symbolics Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	14.3%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	2	14.3%
2021	3	21.4%
2023	2	14.3%
2024	1	7.1%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Symbolics Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

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 8

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Symbolics Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Symbolics Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #20,481 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Symbolics Inc. against Stimscience Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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.