Where does Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ranks #256 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 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation hold?

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation holds 1,659 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 250 technology areas.

What is Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's Innovation Score?

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has an Innovation Score of 66.1 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 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation focus on?

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 369 patents, ranking #36 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 250 CPC subclasses total.

Is Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's patents?

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's patents average 16.9 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 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 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

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,659 granted patents across 250 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wisconsin ranks #256 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,659 patents across 250 technology areas.

#256
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.1/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R256 · US Corporation #256 · 1,659 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #256/49,997
NEAR-PEER Pure Storage
CPC-BROAD A61K · 250 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pure Storage, Inc. (±7 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 Wisconsin’s 66.1 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 25.6 pts (39%) Velocity 5.3 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Jabil · near

66
National University… · near

66
Wisconsin Alumni… · this assignee

66
OmniVision · near

66
Varian Medical Systems · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wisconsin's Innovation Score is 66.1/100 (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 Wisconsin?

Each dot is one of Wisconsin’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). Wisconsin’s own 16.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Wisconsin's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation received 715 grants versus 843 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 175 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 128. Lead class A61K accounts for 22.2% of the portfolio across 250 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Intuit Inc. (#252) and NGK Insulators, Ltd. (#260).

Wisconsin's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation moved from 491 to 394 grants (0.80x 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 #1,839. See the growth leaderboard.

Intuit

1,684
Rockwell Collins

1,679
Rockwell Automati…

1,672
THE Regents OF TH…

1,666
Wisconsin Alumni… ◀

1,659
Pure Storage

1,652
Infineon Austria

1,650
Au Optronics

1,648
NGK Insulators

1,631

What this shows Wisconsin holds 1,659 patents at rank #256, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wisconsin

By rank, the assignees closest to #256 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wisconsin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Wisconsin ranks #36 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

National University OF Defense Technology 66 Jabil Inc. 66 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. 66 Varian Medical Systems, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Siemens Industry Software Ltd. 16.9 avg Motorola Solutions, Inc. 16.9 avg University OF Connecticut 16.9 avg Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg

Wisconsin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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 · 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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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	163	9.8%
2016	175	10.5%
2017	168	10.1%
2018	167	10.1%
2019	170	10.2%
2020	171	10.3%
2021	150	9.0%
2022	128	7.7%
2023	135	8.1%
2024	131	7.9%
2025partial year	101	6.1%

Which technologies does Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 369

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 358

C07K - Peptides 228

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 218

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 207

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 132

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 100

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 99

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 86

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 86

C12Y - Enzymes 79

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 70

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 66

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 63

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 55

Top 15 of 250 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

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 22.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #256 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation against Intuit Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.1/100 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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