Where does Tornier SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tornier SAS ranks #8,702 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 Tornier SAS hold?

Tornier SAS holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Tornier SAS's Innovation Score?

Tornier SAS has an Innovation Score of 36.7 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tornier SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tornier SAS's recent grant velocity is +91% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Tornier SAS's patents?

Tornier SAS's patents average 17.1 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 Tornier SAS 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

Tornier SAS

Q: What technology areas does Tornier SAS focus on?

Tornier SAS's top technology area is 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) with 37 patents, ranking #174 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 6 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: 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 Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tornier ranks #8,702 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 6 technology areas.

#8,702
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.7/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8702 · Foreign Corporation #8,702 · 37 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,702/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tata Steel
CPC-NARROW A61F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tata Steel Limited (±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 Tornier’s 36.7 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 12.6 pts (34%) Velocity 5.2 pts (14%) Breadth 8.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gemmy Industries · near

37
Sapphire Energy · near

37
Toolbro Innovators · near

37
Tornier SAS · this assignee

37
World Richman… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tornier's Innovation Score is 36.7/100 (top 46% 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 Tornier?

Each dot is one of Tornier’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). Tornier’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tornier's grants concentrate

Tornier SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 Device). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Tornier sits between THE 13th Research Institute OF China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and The Steelstone Group LLC.

Tornier's three-year grant acceleration

Tornier SAS shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

THE 13th Research…

37
THE Walter AND El…

37
Tokai Kogyo

37
Tokyo Rope MFG

37
Tris Pharma

37
Tata Steel

37
Telect

37
The Steelstone Gr…

37
Tornier SAS ◀

37

What this shows Tornier holds 37 patents at rank #8,694, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tornier

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,694 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tornier, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels), Tornier ranks #174 of 3,082 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Gemmy Industries Corporation 37 World Richman Manufacturing Corporation 37 Sapphire Energy, Inc. 37 Toolbro Innovators, LLC 37

Tornier's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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

Tornier SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	8.1%
2016	2	5.4%
2017	1	2.7%
2018	1	2.7%
2019	4	10.8%
2020	3	8.1%
2021	7	18.9%
2022	3	8.1%
2023	3	8.1%
2024	5	13.5%
2025partial year	5	13.5%

Which technologies does Tornier SAS patent most?

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 37

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 26

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 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 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Tornier SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tornier SAS's lead technology class is 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 Device), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #8,702 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tornier SAS against THE 13th Research Institute OF China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.7/100 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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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