Where does Zimmer, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zimmer, Inc. ranks #824 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 Zimmer, Inc. hold?

Zimmer, Inc. holds 558 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Zimmer, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Zimmer, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.2 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 Zimmer, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zimmer, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Zimmer, Inc.'s patents?

Zimmer, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Zimmer, 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

Zimmer, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Zimmer, Inc. focus on?

Zimmer, Inc.'s top technology area is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs) with 363 patents, ranking #19 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 558 granted patents across 65 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: A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Zimmer ranks #824 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 558 patents across 65 technology areas.

#824
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R824 · US Corporation #824 · 558 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 558 grants
TOP-DECILE #824/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dümmen Group B V
CPC-WIDE A61F · 65 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dümmen Group B.V. (±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 Zimmer’s 61.2 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 21.9 pts (36%) Velocity 3.8 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Laitram L L C · near

61
China Energy… · near

61
Ghost Autonomy · near

61
Leica Geosystems · near

61
Zimmer · this assignee

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zimmer's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (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 Zimmer?

Each dot is one of Zimmer’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). Zimmer’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Zimmer's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Zimmer, Inc. received 190 grants versus 353 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 79 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 24. Lead class A61F accounts for 65.1% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Unicharm Corporation (#820) and STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (#828).

Zimmer's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zimmer, Inc. moved from 165 to 93 grants (0.56x 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 #2,537. See the growth leaderboard.

Unicharm

560
Valeo Vision

559
Dümmen Group B V

558
Minebea Mitsumi

558
Zimmer ◀

558
Asahi Kasei

557
Parsons Xtreme Go…

556
Rolls-royce Deuts…

555
Stmicroelectronic…

555

What this shows Zimmer holds 558 patents at rank #824, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zimmer

By rank, the assignees closest to #824 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zimmer, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels), Zimmer ranks #19 of 3,082 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Leica Geosystems AG 61 Ghost Autonomy Inc. 61 China Energy Investment Corporation Limited 61 Laitram, L.L.C. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Invensas LLC 17.6 avg Nortek Security & Control 17.6 avg Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 17.6 avg Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. 17.6 avg

Zimmer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 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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Zimmer, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	75	13.4%
2016	58	10.4%
2017	79	14.2%
2018	73	13.1%
2019	68	12.2%
2020	58	10.4%
2021	39	7.0%
2022	40	7.2%
2023	29	5.2%
2024	24	4.3%
2025partial year	15	2.7%

Which technologies does Zimmer, Inc. patent most?

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 363

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 345

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 41

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 36

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 29

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 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 12

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 12

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 11

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 11

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 10

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 9

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 9

Top 15 of 65 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

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

Zimmer, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device), 65.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #824 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zimmer, Inc. against Unicharm Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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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