Masimo Ranks #1 in Industry Current Impact and Innovation Cycle Time on the 2008 Patent Scorecard™ List of Top 10 Innovators in Medical Devices
Masimo Corporation ranked highest among all medical device innovators in two categories on the 2008 Patent Scorecard. Leading the Industry Current Impact™ category with a score of 12.054, Masimo scored highest of all medtech companies, including Abbott with 2.490, Covidien with 1.782 and Medtronic with 1.704, indicating the extent to which others are building upon Masimo’s portfolio of issued U.S. utility patents as compared to a total set of patents. In the Innovation Cycle Time™ category, Masimo again out-scored all other medtech companies with a score of 6.9, a score that indicates whether a patent or patent portfolio is building off newer (the lower the score) or older inventions (the higher the score).
The Patent Scorecard is an industry-by-industry ranking of corporate innovation and combines a series of indicators to arrive at patent quality, technological strength and breadth of impact. It has historically been published in MIT’s Technology Review and tracks the U.S. patent portfolio of more than 2,500 of the world’s top technology firms.
