Where does Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation ranks #395 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 Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation hold?

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation holds 1,132 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 78 technology areas.

What is Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's Innovation Score?

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation has an Innovation Score of 58.0 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%).

What technology areas does Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation focus on?

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 772 patents, ranking #17 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 78 CPC subclasses total.

Is Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's recent grant velocity is -98% 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 Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's patents?

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's patents average 14.3 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 Toshiba Medical Systems 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 Foreign Corporation

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,132 granted patents across 78 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toshiba ranks #395 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,132 patents across 78 technology areas.

#395
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.0/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: -98%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R395 · Foreign Corporation #395 · 1,132 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #395/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Molex
CPC-WIDE A61B · 78 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -98% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Molex, LLC (±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 Toshiba’s 58.0 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 24.3 pts (42%) Velocity 0.1 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sony Olympus… · near

58
Louisiana-pacific · near

58
Therabody · near

58
Toshiba Medical… · this assignee

58
nLIGHT · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toshiba's Innovation Score is 58.0/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Toshiba?

Each dot is one of Toshiba’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). Toshiba’s own 14.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Toshiba's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation received 25 grants versus 1,107 in 2015–2019 (-98% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 259 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 1. Lead class A61B accounts for 68.2% of the portfolio across 78 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. (#391) and BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (#399).

Toshiba's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation moved from 192 to 4 grants (0.02x 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 #3,268. See the growth leaderboard.

Kimberly-clark Wo…

1,135
Taiyo Yuden

1,135
Orange

1,134
Molex

1,132
Toshiba Medical S… ◀

1,132
Bytedance

1,130
Cree

1,127
Cornell University

1,126
BSH Hausgeräte

1,122

What this shows Toshiba holds 1,132 patents at rank #395, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toshiba

By rank, the assignees closest to #395 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Toshiba, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Toshiba ranks #17 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Therabody, Inc. 58 Louisiana-pacific Corp. 58 Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. 58 nLIGHT, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.3 here).

Au Optronics Corporation 14.3 avg Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft 14.3 avg Karlsruher Institut FÜR Technologie 14.3 avg Shenyang Neusoft Medical Systems Co., Ltd. 14.3 avg

Toshiba'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 · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	224	19.8%
2016	206	18.2%
2017	259	22.9%
2018	247	21.8%
2019	171	15.1%
2020	14	1.2%
2021	7	0.6%
2022	1	0.1%
2023	2	0.2%
2024	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 772

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 377

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 263

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 171

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 103

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 72

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 70

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 38

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 28

H05G - X-ray Technique 23

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 17

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 14

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 12

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 11

Top 15 of 78 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

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 68.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #395 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation against Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.0/100 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

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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