Where does Welch Allyn, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Welch Allyn, Inc. ranks #1,146 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 Welch Allyn, Inc. hold?

Welch Allyn, Inc. holds 370 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Welch Allyn, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Welch Allyn, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.9 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Welch Allyn, Inc. focus on?

Welch Allyn, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 277 patents, ranking #75 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

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

Welch Allyn, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -23% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

Welch Allyn, Inc.'s patents average 14.4 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 Welch Allyn, 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

Welch Allyn, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 370 granted patents across 58 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Welch ranks #1,146 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 370 patents across 58 technology areas.

#1,146
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.9/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1146 · US Corporation #1,146 · 370 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 370 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,146/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dentsply Sirona
CPC-WIDE A61B · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dentsply Sirona 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 Welch’s 57.9 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 20.4 pts (35%) Velocity 3.8 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Daifuku · near

58
UNIVERSITÉ Libre DE… · near

58
Velcro IP Holdings · near

58
Welch Allyn · this assignee

58
Cerence Operating · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Welch's Innovation Score is 57.9/100 (top 5% 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 Welch?

Each dot is one of Welch’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). Welch’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Welch's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Welch Allyn, Inc. received 150 grants versus 196 in 2015–2019 (-23% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 48 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 17. Lead class A61B accounts for 74.9% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Dentsply Sirona Inc. (#1,142) and Oakley, Inc. (#1,150).

Welch's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Welch Allyn, Inc. moved from 118 to 67 grants (0.57x 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 #2,530. See the growth leaderboard.

Dentsply Sirona

370
Eagle Industry

370
Ivoclar Vivadent

370
Jatco

370
Welch Allyn ◀

370
AAC Optics Soluti…

369
GE Video Compress…

369
Mars Incorporated

369
Oakley

369

What this shows Welch holds 370 patents at rank #1,146, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Welch

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,146 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Welch, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61B (Diagnosis), Welch ranks #75 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

UNIVERSITÉ Libre DE Bruxelles 58 Velcro IP Holdings LLC 58 Cerence Operating Company 58 Daifuku Co., Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.4 here).

Powerchip Technology Corporation 14.4 avg Sick AG 14.4 avg Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg Semes Co., Ltd. 14.4 avg

Welch's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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.

View data table

Welch Allyn, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	9.5%
2016	47	12.7%
2017	37	10.0%
2018	42	11.4%
2019	35	9.5%
2020	48	13.0%
2021	35	9.5%
2022	32	8.6%
2023	17	4.6%
2024	18	4.9%
2025partial year	24	6.5%

Which technologies does Welch Allyn, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 277

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 76

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 38

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 30

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 19

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 17

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 16

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 15

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 12

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 11

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 9

H04Q - Selecting 9

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

Top 15 of 58 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

Welch Allyn, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 74.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #1,146 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Welch Allyn, Inc. against Dentsply Sirona Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.9/100 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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