Where does The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology ranks #4,307 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 Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology hold?

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's Innovation Score?

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology has an Innovation Score of 45.5 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's recent grant velocity is +27% 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 Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's patents?

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's patents average 13.5 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.

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The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

Q: What technology areas does The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology focus on?

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 71 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 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 PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 19 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 #4,307 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 19 technology areas.

#4,307
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.5/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4307 · US Corporation #4,307 · 83 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,307/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Perceive
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Perceive 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
Fisher & Paykel… · near

46
SOLiD · near

46
The Wistar Institute… · this assignee

46
UDC Ireland · near

46
WhatsApp · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 45.5/100 (top 23% 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 Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 85.5% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, The sits between Perceive Corporation and Vonage Business Inc..

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology moved from 25 to 25 grants (1.00x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Perceive

83
Tatsuta Electric…

83
Toyota Shatai

83
The Coleman

83
Theranos

83
UIF (University I…

83
University OF Nor…

83
Vonage Business

83
The Wistar Instit… ◀

83

What this shows The holds 83 patents at rank #4,308, 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 #4,308 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 (46 here).

WhatsApp LLC 46 UDC Ireland Limited 46 SOLiD, Inc. 46 Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.5 here).

Chanel Parfums Beaute 13.5 avg Refractory Intellectual Property GMBH & Co. KG 13.5 avg Jiangsu Midea Cleaning Appliances Co., Ltd. 13.5 avg Amvac Chemical Corporation 13.5 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	3.6%
2016	3	3.6%
2017	5	6.0%
2018	7	8.4%
2019	12	14.5%
2020	3	3.6%
2021	10	12.0%
2022	6	7.2%
2023	6	7.2%
2024	13	15.7%
2025partial year	15	18.1%

Which technologies does The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 71

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 58

C07K - Peptides 50

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 49

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 13

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

C12Y - Enzymes 10

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 9

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 3

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 2

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 2

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,307

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.5 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 Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 85.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #4,307 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology against Perceive Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.5/100 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

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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

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