Where does West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. ranks #3,215 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 West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. hold?

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +173% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s patents?

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s patents average 13.7 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 West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. 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

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. focus on?

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 92 patents, ranking #77 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 13 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, West ranks #3,215 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 13 technology areas.

#3,215
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +173%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3215 · Foreign Corporation #3,215 · 117 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,215/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tectus
CPC-FOCUS A61M · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +173% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tectus Corporation (±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 West’s 41.9 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 16.5 pts (39%) Velocity 4.5 pts (11%) Breadth 12.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amesbury Group · near

42
ShelterLogic · near

42
Uhnder · near

42
Wave Life Sciences · near

42
West Pharma… · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows West's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 West?

Each dot is one of West’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). West’s own 13.7 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where West's grants concentrate

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 78.6% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (22 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2018. By volume, West sits between Tectus Corporation and Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd..

West's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. moved from 61 to 41 grants (0.67x 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 #2,240. See the growth leaderboard.

Tectus

117
Teleflex Life Sci…

117
The University Of…

117
Universite DE Par…

117
Woodpeckers

117
Yamada Manufactur…

117
West Pharma Servi… ◀

117
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116
Angel Playing Car…

116

What this shows West holds 117 patents at rank #3,215, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near West

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,215 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for West, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), West ranks #77 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Uhnder, Inc. 42 Amesbury Group, Inc. 42 Wave Life Sciences Ltd. 42 ShelterLogic Corp. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

MPI Corporation 13.7 avg Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. 13.7 avg Deutsches Zentrum FÜR LUFT—UND Raumfahrt E.V. 13.7 avg Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. 13.7 avg

West's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	10	8.5%
2019	20	17.1%
2020	22	18.8%
2021	19	16.2%
2022	14	12.0%
2023	16	13.7%
2024	11	9.4%
2025partial year	5	4.3%

Which technologies does West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. patent most?

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 92

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 27

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 18

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 15

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

F16H - Gearing 7

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

C12Y - Enzymes 1

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 1

C07K - Peptides 1

Top 13 of 13 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

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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), 78.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #3,215 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. against Tectus Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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

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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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