Where does Worcester Polytechnic Institute rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Worcester Polytechnic Institute ranks #2,601 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 Worcester Polytechnic Institute hold?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute holds 150 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 116 technology areas.

What is Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Innovation Score?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has an Innovation Score of 58.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Worcester Polytechnic Institute focus on?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 29 patents. Grants appear in 116 CPC subclasses total.

Is Worcester Polytechnic Institute's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's recent grant velocity is +17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Worcester Polytechnic Institute's patents?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's patents average 16.4 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 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 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

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 150 granted patents across 116 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, Worcester ranks #2,601 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 150 patents across 116 technology areas.

#2,601
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.5/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2601 · US Corporation #2,601 · 150 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 150 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,601/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Semtech
CPC-WIDE A61B · 116 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Semtech 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bentley Systems… · near

58
China Mobile… · near

58
Auburn University · near

58
Pegatron · near

58
Worcester Polytechni… · this assignee

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Worcester's Innovation Score is 58.5/100 (top 4% 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.

How Worcester's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Worcester Polytechnic Institute received 75 grants versus 64 in 2015–2019 (+17% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 21 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class A61B accounts for 19.3% of the portfolio across 116 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Semtech Corporation (#2,597) and American Sterilizer Company (#2,605).

Worcester's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Worcester Polytechnic Institute moved from 49 to 46 grants (0.94x 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 #1,364. See the growth leaderboard.

Semtech

150
Thru Tubing Solut…

150
Thomas Jefferson…

150
Vesture

150
Worcester Polytec… ◀

150
Amotech

149
Atlas Copco Indus…

149
AUO

149
American Steriliz…

149

What this shows Worcester holds 150 patents at rank #2,601, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Worcester

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,601 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Worcester, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Auburn University 58 Pegatron Corporation 58 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 58 China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH 16.4 avg Solventum Intellectual Properties Company 16.4 avg GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd 16.4 avg Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. 16.4 avg

Worcester's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Worcester Polytechnic Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	4.0%
2016	12	8.0%
2017	13	8.7%
2018	13	8.7%
2019	20	13.3%
2020	14	9.3%
2021	15	10.0%
2022	11	7.3%
2023	14	9.3%
2024	21	14.0%
2025partial year	11	7.3%

Which technologies does Worcester Polytechnic Institute patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 29

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 19

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 18

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 18

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 16

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 14

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 8

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 8

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 8

Top 15 of 116 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,601

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 19.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #2,601 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Worcester Polytechnic Institute against Semtech Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.5/100 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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