Where does Varian Medical Systems International AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Varian Medical Systems International AG ranks #1,652 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 International AG hold?

Varian Medical Systems International AG holds 249 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Varian Medical Systems International AG's Innovation Score?

Varian Medical Systems International AG has an Innovation Score of 52.8 out of 100 (top 10% 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 International AG focus on?

Varian Medical Systems International AG's top technology area is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy) with 206 patents, ranking #13 of 1,943 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Varian Medical Systems International AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Varian Medical Systems International AG's recent grant velocity is +9% 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 International AG's patents?

Varian Medical Systems International AG's patents average 21.5 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 International AG 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

Varian Medical Systems International AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 249 granted patents across 26 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: A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Varian ranks #1,652 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 249 patents across 26 technology areas.

#1,652
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.8/100): 21.5
avg claims per patent: +9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1652 · Foreign Corporation #1,652 · 249 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 249 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,652/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arkema
CPC-FOCUS A61N · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arkema 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 Varian’s 52.8 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 19.1 pts (36%) Velocity 2.8 pts (5%) Breadth 18.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ascentage Pharma… · near

53
Savannah River… · near

53
Varian Medical… · this assignee

53
HeartWare · near

53
Nifco · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Varian's Innovation Score is 52.8/100 (top 10% 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 21.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 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.

Where Varian's grants concentrate

Varian Medical Systems International AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 82.7% of grants classified under A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (44 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2024. By volume, Varian sits between AS America, Inc. and Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd..

Varian's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Varian Medical Systems International AG moved from 123 to 51 grants (0.41x 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 #2,854. See the growth leaderboard.

AS America

249
Arkema

249
Seven Networks

249
Slack

249
Varian Medical Sy… ◀

249
Antecip Bioventur…

248
Activision Publis…

248
Amadeus S

248
Chicony Power Tec…

248

What this shows Varian holds 249 patents at rank #1,652, 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 #1,652 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 #13 of 1,943 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC 53 Ascentage Pharma (SUZHOU) Co., Ltd. 53 Nifco Inc. 53 HeartWare, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.5 here).

Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc. 21.5 avg The Babcock & Wilcox Company 21.5 avg Konami Gaming, Inc. 21.5 avg Built Robotics Inc. 21.5 avg

Varian's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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.

View data table

Varian Medical Systems International AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	4.4%
2016	11	4.4%
2017	25	10.0%
2018	28	11.2%
2019	44	17.7%
2020	40	16.1%
2021	39	15.7%
2022	33	13.3%
2023	13	5.2%
2024	5	2.0%

Which technologies does Varian Medical Systems International AG patent most?

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 206

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 63

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 60

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 58

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 22

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 13

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 11

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 10

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

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 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 2

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Varian Medical Systems International AG's lead technology class is A61N (ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy), 82.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61N
Ranked #1,652 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Varian Medical Systems International AG against AS America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.8/100 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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