Where does THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia ranks #2,323 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 Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia hold?

THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia holds 169 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's Innovation Score?

THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia has an Innovation Score of 58.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's recent grant velocity is +24% 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 Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's patents?

THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's patents average 16.4 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 THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia 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 Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia

Q: What technology areas does THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia focus on?

THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 119 patents. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 169 granted patents across 46 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 #2,323 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 169 patents across 46 technology areas.

#2,323
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.2/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2323 · US Corporation #2,323 · 169 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 169 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,323/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Radiant Opto-
CPC-WIDE A61K · 46 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation (±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
Sensor Technology · near

58
Johnson Matthey · near

58
Korea Technology… · near

58
THE Children's… · this assignee

58
Bestway Inflatables… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 58.2/100 (top 5% 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.

Where THE's grants concentrate

THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 70.4% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (21 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2015. By volume, THE sits between Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation and General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L..

THE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia moved from 52 to 52 grants (1.00x 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 #1,178. See the growth leaderboard.

Radiant Opto-

169
Rigaku

169
Shanghai Avic Opt…

169
Sunbeam Products

169
THE Children's Ho… ◀

169
FOR Imaging

168
Erbe Elektromediz…

168
Extreme Networks

168
General Electric…

168

What this shows THE holds 169 patents at rank #2,323, 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 #2,323 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 (58 here).

Korea Electronics Technology Institute 58 Johnson Matthey PLC 58 Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. 58 Bestway Inflatables & Material Corp. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific PTE. Limited 16.4 avg H. Lundbeck A/S 16.4 avg Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. 16.4 avg Plexxikon Inc. 16.4 avg

THE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	4.1%
2016	12	7.1%
2017	13	7.7%
2018	21	12.4%
2019	17	10.1%
2020	19	11.2%
2021	16	9.5%
2022	18	10.7%
2023	19	11.2%
2024	15	8.9%
2025partial year	12	7.1%

Which technologies does THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 119

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 103

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 52

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 46

C07K - Peptides 28

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 25

C12Y - Enzymes 21

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 14

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 10

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 10

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 10

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 7

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 6

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

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 5

Top 15 of 46 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,323

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.2 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 Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 70.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #2,323 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Children's Hospital OF Philadelphia against Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.2/100 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.

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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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