Where does The Hospital for Sick Children rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Hospital for Sick Children ranks #3,787 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 Hospital for Sick Children hold?

The Hospital for Sick Children holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is The Hospital for Sick Children's Innovation Score?

The Hospital for Sick Children has an Innovation Score of 46.0 out of 100 (top 22% 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 Hospital for Sick Children focus on?

The Hospital for Sick Children's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 59 patents, ranking #352 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Hospital for Sick Children's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Hospital for Sick Children's recent grant velocity is -29% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for The Hospital for Sick Children's patents?

The Hospital for Sick Children's patents average 14.5 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 Hospital for Sick Children 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 Foreign Corporation

The Hospital for Sick Children

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 25 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 #3,787 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 25 technology areas.

#3,787
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.0/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3787 · Foreign Corporation #3,787 · 96 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,787/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen SNC Opto
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen SNC Opto Electronic Co., Ltd (±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 The’s 46.0 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 15.8 pts (34%) Velocity 3.8 pts (8%) Breadth 17.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LSI · near

46
Or-Ment · near

46
Standard Cognition · near

46
The Hospital for… · this assignee

46
Weta Digital · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 46.0/100 (top 22% 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 14.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 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.

Where The's grants concentrate

The Hospital for Sick Children is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 61.5% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (14 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2017. By volume, The sits between Shenzhen SNC Opto Electronic Co., Ltd and VeriFone, Inc..

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Hospital for Sick Children moved from 33 to 19 grants (0.58x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Shenzhen SNC Opto

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TRW Automotive U S

96
Teradiode

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Universitat Zurich

96
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96
Vanda Pharmaceuti…

96
Verifone

96
The Hospital for… ◀

96

What this shows The holds 96 patents at rank #3,788, 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 #3,788 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 #352 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

LSI 46 Standard Cognition, Corp. 46 Weta Digital Ltd. 46 Or-Ment LLC 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.5 here).

Ansaldo Energia IP UK Limited 14.5 avg Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. 14.5 avg Genethon 14.5 avg BYD Company Limited 14.5 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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 Hospital for Sick Children patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	12.5%
2016	12	12.5%
2017	4	4.2%
2018	14	14.6%
2019	13	13.5%
2020	9	9.4%
2021	11	11.5%
2022	8	8.3%
2023	6	6.3%
2024	5	5.2%
2025partial year	2	2.1%

Which technologies does The Hospital for Sick Children patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 59

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 55

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 22

C07K - Peptides 20

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 18

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 18

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 18

C12Y - Enzymes 13

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 9

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

A61H - Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body 8

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 4

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C07J - Steroids 2

Top 15 of 25 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 Hospital for Sick Children's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Hospital for Sick Children's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 61.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,787 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Hospital for Sick Children against Shenzhen SNC Opto Electronic Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.0/100 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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