Where does Walgreen Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Walgreen Co. ranks #1,691 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 Walgreen Co. hold?

Walgreen Co. holds 244 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Walgreen Co.'s Innovation Score?

Walgreen Co. has an Innovation Score of 61.8 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%).

Is Walgreen Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Walgreen Co.'s recent grant velocity is +272% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Walgreen Co.'s patents?

Walgreen Co.'s patents average 18.5 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 Walgreen Co. 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

Walgreen Co.

Q: What technology areas does Walgreen Co. focus on?

Walgreen Co.'s top technology area is 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) with 164 patents, ranking #91 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 244 granted patents across 39 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Walgreen ranks #1,691 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 244 patents across 39 technology areas.

#1,691
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.8/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +272%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1691 · US Corporation #1,691 · 244 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 244 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,691/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Prysmian S p A
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 39 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +272% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Prysmian S.p.A. (±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 Walgreen’s 61.8 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 19.0 pts (31%) Velocity 9.6 pts (16%) Breadth 22.1 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ebara · near

62
Shenzhen Institutes… · near

62
Ventana Medical… · near

62
Walgreen · this assignee

62
Marvell International · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Walgreen's Innovation Score is 61.8/100 (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 Walgreen?

Each dot is one of Walgreen’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). Walgreen’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Walgreen's grants concentrate

Walgreen Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 67.2% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (47 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Walgreen sits between Prysmian S.p.A. and Spring Meadow Nursery Inc..

Walgreen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Walgreen Co. moved from 82 to 118 grants (1.44x 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 #491. See the growth leaderboard.

Prysmian S p A

244
Spreadtrum Commun…

244
Umicore & KG

244
United Arab Emira…

244
Walgreen ◀

244
Anpec

243
Delphi IP

243
Korea Institute O…

243
Spring Meadow Nur…

243

What this shows Walgreen holds 244 patents at rank #1,691, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Walgreen

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,691 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Walgreen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Walgreen ranks #91 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. 62 Ebara Corporation 62 Shenzhen Institutes OF Advanced Technology 62 Marvell International Ltd. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

Spin Memory, Inc. 18.5 avg Young Optics Inc. 18.5 avg Omnissa, LLC 18.5 avg Nanotronics Imaging, Inc. 18.5 avg

Walgreen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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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Walgreen Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	2.9%
2016	1	0.4%
2017	5	2.0%
2018	9	3.7%
2019	25	10.2%
2020	30	12.3%
2021	27	11.1%
2022	25	10.2%
2023	47	19.3%
2024	46	18.9%
2025partial year	22	9.0%

Which technologies does Walgreen Co. patent most?

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 164

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 89

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 70

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 36

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 25

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 19

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 16

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 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 11

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 5

Top 15 of 39 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

Walgreen Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Walgreen Co.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 67.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #1,691 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Walgreen Co. against Prysmian S.p.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.8/100 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

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