Where does Verb Surgical Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Verb Surgical Inc. ranks #1,441 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 Verb Surgical Inc. hold?

Verb Surgical Inc. holds 290 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is Verb Surgical Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Verb Surgical Inc. has an Innovation Score of 70.8 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 Verb Surgical Inc. focus on?

Verb Surgical Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 270 patents, ranking #77 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

Is Verb Surgical Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Verb Surgical Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +3329% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Verb Surgical Inc.'s patents?

Verb Surgical Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Verb Surgical 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

Verb Surgical Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 290 granted patents across 51 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Verb ranks #1,441 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 290 patents across 51 technology areas.

#1,441
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.8/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: +3329%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1441 · US Corporation #1,441 · 290 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 290 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,441/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dialog Semiconductor
CPC-WIDE A61B · 51 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +3329% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dialog Semiconductor 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 Verb’s 70.8 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 19.6 pts (28%) Velocity 14.9 pts (21%) Breadth 25.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intuitive Surgical… · near

71
Berkshire Grey… · near

71
Pratt & Whitney Canada · near

71
Verb Surgical · this assignee

71
Juniper Networks · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Verb's Innovation Score is 70.8/100 (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 Verb?

Each dot is one of Verb’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). Verb’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Verb's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Verb Surgical Inc. received 240 grants versus 7 in 2015–2019 (+3329% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 65 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 1. Lead class A61B accounts for 93.1% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tomy Company, Ltd. (#1,437) and SeeScan, Inc. (#1,445).

Verb's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Verb Surgical Inc. moved from 76 to 170 grants (2.24x 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 #159. See the growth leaderboard.

Tomy

291
Dialog Semiconduc…

290
Leica Microsystem…

290
Square Enix

290
Verb Surgical ◀

290
Cheng UEI Precisi…

289
Everspin

289
Shopify

289
Seescan

289

What this shows Verb holds 290 patents at rank #1,441, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Verb

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,441 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Verb, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Verb ranks #77 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. 71 Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc. 71 Juniper Networks, Inc. 71 Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Advanced Bionics AG 18.8 avg Wing Aviation LLC 18.8 avg Qlogic Corporation 18.8 avg Livsmed Inc. 18.8 avg

Verb's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Verb Surgical Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.3%
2019	6	2.1%
2020	27	9.3%
2021	43	14.8%
2022	43	14.8%
2023	62	21.4%
2024	65	22.4%
2025partial year	43	14.8%

Which technologies does Verb Surgical Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 270

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 132

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 78

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 73

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 37

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 33

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 26

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 25

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 25

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 20

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 13

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 12

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 11

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 11

Top 15 of 51 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

Verb Surgical Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Verb Surgical Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 93.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,441 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Verb Surgical Inc. against Tomy Company, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.8/100 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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