Where does The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. ranks #655 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 The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. hold?

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. holds 685 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 94 technology areas.

What is The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +16% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s patents?

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s patents average 17.3 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 The Brigham and Women's Hospital, 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

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. focus on?

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 385 patents. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 685 granted patents across 94 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #655 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 685 patents across 94 technology areas.

#655
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.5/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R655 · US Corporation #655 · 685 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 685 grants
TOP-DECILE #655/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GM Cruise Holdings
CPC-WIDE A61K · 94 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GM Cruise Holdings LLC (±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
San Diego State… · near

65
Trinamix · near

65
Bose · near

65
General Atomics… · near

65
The Brigham and… · this assignee

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 64.5/100 (top 2% 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.

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. received 345 grants versus 297 in 2015–2019 (+16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 79 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 39. Lead class A61K accounts for 56.2% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Saturn Licensing LLC (#651) and M.S. Technologies, L.L.C. (#659).

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. moved from 213 to 211 grants (0.99x 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 #1,209. See the growth leaderboard.

Saturn Licensing

689
The Research Foun…

688
Evonik Degussa

686
GM Cruise Holdings

685
Yale University

685
The Brigham and W… ◀

685
Tianma Microelect…

684
Bayer Healthcare

681
M S L L C

681

What this shows The holds 685 patents at rank #655, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #655 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Bose Corporation 65 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. 65 Trinamix GMBH 65 San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd. 17.3 avg Boston Scientific Limited 17.3 avg Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 17.3 avg Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. 17.3 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	39	5.7%
2016	62	9.1%
2017	59	8.6%
2018	58	8.5%
2019	79	11.5%
2020	66	9.6%
2021	68	9.9%
2022	70	10.2%
2023	71	10.4%
2024	70	10.2%
2025partial year	43	6.3%

Which technologies does The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 385

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 307

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 170

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 160

C07K - Peptides 138

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 127

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 93

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 62

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 59

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 57

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 33

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 30

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 29

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 26

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 25

Top 15 of 94 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#655

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

64.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 56.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #655 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. against Saturn Licensing LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.5/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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