Where does Varian Medical Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Varian Medical Systems, Inc. ranks #1,040 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 Varian Medical Systems, Inc. hold?

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. holds 419 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 66.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Varian Medical Systems, Inc. focus on?

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy) with 296 patents, ranking #8 of 1,943 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

Is Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +32% 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 Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s patents average 21.2 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 Varian Medical Systems, 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

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 419 granted patents across 60 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: A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Varian ranks #1,040 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 419 patents across 60 technology areas.

#1,040
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.1/100): 21.2
avg claims per patent: +32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1040 · US Corporation #1,040 · 419 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 419 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,040/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Depuy Ireland…
CPC-WIDE A61N · 60 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Depuy Ireland Unlimited Company (±1 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 Varian’s 66.1 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 20.9 pts (32%) Velocity 7.5 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wisconsin Alumni… · near

66
OmniVision · near

66
Varian Medical Systems · this assignee

66
The Trustees of the… · near

66
Howmedica Osteonics · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Varian's Innovation Score is 66.1/100 (top 1% 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 Varian?

Each dot is one of Varian’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). Varian’s own 21.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Varian's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Varian Medical Systems, Inc. received 220 grants versus 167 in 2015–2019 (+32% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 61 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 26. Lead class A61N accounts for 70.6% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GN Hearing A/S (#1,036) and Agrigenics Inc. (#1,044).

Varian's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Varian Medical Systems, Inc. moved from 121 to 136 grants (1.12x 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 #914. See the growth leaderboard.

GN Hearing A/S

421
Worldpay

421
Depuy Ireland Unl…

420
Scania CV AB

420
Varian Medical Sy… ◀

419
Postech Academy-i…

418
KHS

417
Mitsumi Electric

417
Agrigenics

416

What this shows Varian holds 419 patents at rank #1,040, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Varian

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,040 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61N (Electrotherapy)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Varian, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61N (Electrotherapy), Varian ranks #8 of 1,943 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. 66 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania 66 Howmedica Osteonics Corp. 66 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.2 here).

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 21.2 avg WiTricity Corporation 21.2 avg CyberArk Software Ltd. 21.1 avg THE Code Corporation 21.2 avg

Varian's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Varian Medical Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	8.1%
2016	43	10.3%
2017	27	6.4%
2018	26	6.2%
2019	37	8.8%
2020	39	9.3%
2021	45	10.7%
2022	31	7.4%
2023	61	14.6%
2024	44	10.5%
2025partial year	32	7.6%

Which technologies does Varian Medical Systems, Inc. patent most?

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 296

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 164

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 66

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 59

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 44

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 39

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 24

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 20

H05G - X-ray Technique 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

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 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 10

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

H03K - Pulse Technique 7

Top 15 of 60 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

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy), 70.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61N
Ranked #1,040 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Varian Medical Systems, Inc. against GN Hearing A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.1/100 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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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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