Where does The General Hospital Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The General Hospital Corporation ranks #281 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 General Hospital Corporation hold?

The General Hospital Corporation holds 1,529 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 116 technology areas.

What is The General Hospital Corporation's Innovation Score?

The General Hospital Corporation has an Innovation Score of 66.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The General Hospital Corporation focus on?

The General Hospital Corporation's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 594 patents, ranking #18 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 116 CPC subclasses total.

Is The General Hospital Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The General Hospital Corporation's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 General Hospital Corporation's patents?

The General Hospital Corporation's patents average 18.2 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 General Hospital Corporation 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 General Hospital Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,529 granted patents across 116 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 #281 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,529 patents across 116 technology areas.

#281
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.6/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R281 · US Corporation #281 · 1,529 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #281/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aktiebolaget SKF
CPC-WIDE A61K · 116 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aktiebolaget SKF (±3 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 The’s 66.6 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 25.3 pts (38%) Velocity 5.4 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Genentech · near

67
Lumentum Operations · near

67
TDK · near

67
The General Hospital · this assignee

67
Polaris Industries · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 66.6/100 (top 1% 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The General Hospital Corporation received 713 grants versus 711 in 2015–2019 (+0% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 188 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 95. Lead class A61K accounts for 38.8% of the portfolio across 116 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Motorola Solutions, Inc. (#277) and Sun Patent Trust (#285).

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The General Hospital Corporation moved from 499 to 402 grants (0.81x 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 #1,823. See the growth leaderboard.

Motorola Solutions

1,555
Bose

1,553
Toray Industries

1,543
Palantir

1,534
The General Hospi… ◀

1,529
Aktiebolaget SKF

1,526
Accenture Global…

1,520
Panasonic Holdings

1,518
Sun Patent Trust

1,507

What this shows The holds 1,529 patents at rank #281, 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 #281 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). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), The ranks #18 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

TDK Corporation 67 Polaris Industries Inc. 67 Lumentum Operations LLC 67 Genentech, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Lam Research Corporation 18.2 avg Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company 18.2 avg Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. 18.2 avg Keysight Technologies, Inc. 18.2 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

The General Hospital Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	95	6.2%
2016	128	8.4%
2017	140	9.2%
2018	160	10.5%
2019	188	12.3%
2020	157	10.3%
2021	154	10.1%
2022	134	8.8%
2023	143	9.4%
2024	125	8.2%
2025partial year	105	6.9%

Which technologies does The General Hospital Corporation patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 594

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 479

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 418

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 354

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 295

C07K - Peptides 249

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 185

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 134

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 124

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 92

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 92

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 85

C12Y - Enzymes 84

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 81

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 79

Top 15 of 116 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

The General Hospital Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The General Hospital Corporation's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 38.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #281 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The General Hospital Corporation against Motorola Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.6/100 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

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

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