Where does Vapotherm, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vapotherm, Inc. ranks #6,969 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 Vapotherm, Inc. hold?

Vapotherm, Inc. holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Vapotherm, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Vapotherm, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vapotherm, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vapotherm, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +158% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Vapotherm, Inc.'s patents?

Vapotherm, Inc.'s patents average 22.1 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 Vapotherm, Inc. 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

Vapotherm, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Vapotherm, Inc. focus on?

Vapotherm, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 46 patents, ranking #159 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vapotherm ranks #6,969 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 8 technology areas.

#6,969
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 22.1
avg claims per patent: +158%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6969 · US Corporation #6,969 · 48 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,969/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tusker Medical
CPC-NARROW A61M · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +158% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tusker Medical, 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 Vapotherm’s 42.4 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 13.4 pts (32%) Velocity 5.7 pts (13%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 13.2 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bridgestone Bandag · near

42
Ecopro BM · near

42
Prince Castle · near

42
Restoration Robotics · near

42
Vapotherm · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vapotherm's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 Vapotherm?

Each dot is one of Vapotherm’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). Vapotherm’s own 22.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vapotherm's grants concentrate

Vapotherm, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 95.8% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Vapotherm sits between Tusker Medical, Inc. and Vitae Pharmaceuticals, LLC.

Vapotherm's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Vapotherm, Inc. moved from 21 to 18 grants (0.86x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Tusker Medical

48
Universite D'ange…

48
Ulthera

48
United Semiconduc…

48
Verinata Health

48
Victoria Link

48
Virent

48
Vitae Pharmaceuti…

48
Vapotherm ◀

48

What this shows Vapotherm holds 48 patents at rank #6,968, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vapotherm

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,968 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vapotherm, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Vapotherm ranks #159 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Ecopro BM Co., Ltd. 42 Restoration Robotics, Inc. 42 Bridgestone Bandag, LLC 42 Prince Castle LLC 42

Vapotherm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Vapotherm, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.1%
2017	1	2.1%
2018	2	4.2%
2019	8	16.7%
2020	3	6.3%
2021	10	20.8%
2022	7	14.6%
2023	7	14.6%
2024	4	8.3%
2025partial year	5	10.4%

Which technologies does Vapotherm, Inc. patent most?

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 46

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Vapotherm, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vapotherm, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 95.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #6,969 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vapotherm, Inc. against Tusker Medical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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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