Where does UnitedHealth Group Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UnitedHealth Group Incorporated ranks #4,495 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 UnitedHealth Group Incorporated hold?

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's Innovation Score?

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 60.7 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does UnitedHealth Group Incorporated focus on?

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 49 patents, ranking #987 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +629% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's patents?

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's patents average 19.1 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 UnitedHealth Group Incorporated 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

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 16 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Unitedhealth ranks #4,495 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 16 technology areas.

#4,495
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.7/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +629%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4495 · US Corporation #4,495 · 79 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,495/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Thales Avionics
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 16 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +629% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Thales Avionics, Inc. (±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 Unitedhealth’s 60.7 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 15.1 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 14.1 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AIR Products AND… · near

61
Equinor Energy AS · near

61
Manufacturing… · near

61
UnitedHealth Group… · this assignee

61
Xiamen Hithium… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Unitedhealth's Innovation Score is 60.7/100 (top 3% 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 Unitedhealth?

Each dot is one of Unitedhealth’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). Unitedhealth’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Unitedhealth's grants concentrate

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 62% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Unitedhealth sits between Thales Avionics, Inc. and Zhejiang University OF Technology.

Unitedhealth's three-year grant acceleration

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated shows 44 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Thales Avionics

79
The University Co…

79
Thorlabs

79
University OF Haw…

79
Vitra Patente

79
Vitro Flat Glass

79
Westport Power

79
Zhejiang Universi…

79
Unitedhealth Grou… ◀

79

What this shows UnitedHealth holds 79 patents at rank #4,496, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UnitedHealth

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,496 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for UnitedHealth, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), UnitedHealth ranks #987 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Xiamen Hithium Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. 61 Equinor Energy AS 61 Manufacturing Resources International, Inc. 61 AIR Products AND Chemicals, Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Wabtec Holding Corp. 19.1 avg Dialog Semiconductor B.V. 19.1 avg Biomet 3i, LLC 19.1 avg Cepheid 19.1 avg

Unitedhealth's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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UnitedHealth Group Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.3%
2016	1	1.3%
2018	3	3.8%
2019	2	2.5%
2020	3	3.8%
2021	4	5.1%
2022	5	6.3%
2023	18	22.8%
2024	21	26.6%
2025partial year	21	26.6%

Which technologies does UnitedHealth Group Incorporated patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 49

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 37

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 21

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

H04M - Telephonic Communication 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

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

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

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 1

Top 15 of 16 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

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 62% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,495 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UnitedHealth Group Incorporated against Thales Avionics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.7/100 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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