Consumer Health & Wellness Tech Patents: Leaders & White Space 2026
- Filing is concentrated but not locked up. the top 5 assignees hold 21.8% of all 858 records and the top 10 hold 33.6% — leaving roughly two-thirds of the field to a long tail of single- and low-count filers.
- 2022 was the peak filing year at 71 records, and filings have since pulled back — 2021's 63 fell to 27 by 2024, a -57% move over that three-year span (later years are still incomplete due to publication lag).
- Software framing dominates the claims, with G06F (42.0%) and G16H healthcare informatics (41.7%) each touching over four in ten records, ahead of A61B diagnostic hardware at 30.4%.
Filing growth compares 2021 (63 records) with 2024 (27) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 858 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
What this patent set covers
This landscape covers 858 published patent records filed against consumer health and wellness technology — spanning patient record systems, clinical decision support, care workflow tools, health data platforms, patient interfaces and health analytics. The search combines consumer-facing health and wellness language with the clinical and data-infrastructure terms that separate a wellness gadget claim from a genuine clinical-decision or care-workflow claim. Coverage runs from 2015 through the current data cut-off, with the 2026 count necessarily partial.
Records are drawn from filings at the United States, WIPO (PCT), the European Patent Office, India, Australia and Canada, giving a cross-jurisdictional read on where applicants are seeking protection rather than a single-market snapshot.
Filing trend and technology composition
Two views of the same 858-record set: filings over time, and the IPC subclasses those filings claim into. Because a single record can carry several IPC codes, the composition shares add up to more than 100% of the record total.
Filing trend, 2017–2026
Filings rose to a peak of 71 records in 2022, then declined — 2021's 63 records fell to 27 by 2024, a -57% move over that span. 2025 and 2026 figures will continue to fill in as publication catches up with filing, typically an 18-month lag, so the apparent drop in the newest years should not be read as the field cooling.
Technology composition by IPC subclass
G06F (electric digital data processing) and G16H (healthcare informatics) each appear on over four in ten of the 858 records, confirming that most filings are framed as data-processing or informatics inventions rather than pure hardware. A61B (diagnosis and surgery) sits at 30.4%, G06Q (business/admin data processing) at 26.8%, and H04L (digital transmission) at 14.2% — AI-specific claims under G06N (6.4%) and physical sensing/therapy classes (G01N 2.9%, A61N 2.8%) are comparatively thin.
Shares are the percentage of the 858 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
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WO2022235766A1 — Clinical pathway integration and clinical decision support
Filed by Electronic Caregiver, Inc., this application describes a networked health messaging system built around a data retention system and a health analytics system that performs asynchronous processing against a patient's computing device, communicatively coupled to a deep neural network. A web services layer exposes the retention and analytics systems, with an application server layer routing data requests through a batching service that operates transparently to the requesting application.Published 2022-11-10 — illustrates how clinical decision support claims are increasingly framed as layered data-services architectures rather than single-algorithm inventions.
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US6280380B1 | System and method for determining a reference baseline of individual patient status for use in an automated c… | 807 |
| 2 | US6757898B1 | Electronic provider-patient interface system | 540 |
| 3 | WO2016110804A1 | Mobile wearable monitoring systems | 466 |
| 4 | US6203495B1 | System and method for providing normalized voice feedback from an individual patient in an automated collecti… | 379 |
| 5 | US20090306485A1 | Wearable Electronic System | 368 |
| 6 | US20160103963A1 | Method and system for smart healthcare management | 330 |
| 7 | US20200176098A1 | Clinical Concept Identification, Extraction, and Prediction System and Related Methods | 323 |
| 8 | US20110301982A1 | Integrated medical software system with clinical decision support | 298 |
| 9 | US20110202370A1 | Integrated medical software system with embedded transcription functionality | 287 |
| 10 | US20050171411A1 | System and method for transacting an automated patient communications session | 283 |
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Three findings from the filing pattern that matter more than the raw counts on their own.
Leadership is real but not exclusive
The leading assignee holds 55 records and the tenth-ranked holds 16 — a steep drop-off that still leaves two-thirds of the field split among a long tail of filers. New entrants are not filing into a closed field; they are filing into gaps between a handful of dense portfolios.
Post-peak pullback, not a market exit
Filings peaked at 71 in 2022 and have since fallen through 2024, the last year with a complete publication record. Falling filing counts after a peak often mean the core architecture claims are already staked out and later entrants are shifting to narrower, defensive filings rather than abandoning the space.
Data infrastructure, not devices, carries the claims
The two leading IPC subclasses are both data-processing categories, ahead of A61B diagnostic hardware at 30.4%. Applicants are protecting the data pipeline and decision-support logic around a health signal at least as often as the sensor or device that produces it.
US-anchored, with a real PCT and EPO layer
The United States is the largest single receiving office, but WIPO PCT filings and EPO filings each carry meaningful volume, alongside India, Australia and Canada. A filing strategy built only around US priority will miss where a meaningful share of family members actually land.
Eureka can read the same corpus for gaps instead of for coverage: under-claimed branches adjacent to consumer health & wellness technology patent landscape, with the prior art for and against each one.
Assignee landscape and momentum
The ranked leaders account for a minority of total filings, and recent-year activity shows the pace has cooled across even the most active assignees — a pattern worth checking before assuming any single filer currently dominates.
A single leader, far ahead of the field
The top-ranked assignee holds 55 of the 858 records in scope, more than double the fifth-place count of 27 and well over triple the tenth-place count of 16 — a typical steep-then-flat concentration curve.
Recent-year filing has slowed across leading assignees
Several of the most active historical filers show only one or zero records in the latest year of the dataset, consistent with the broader post-2022 pullback rather than any single company's retreat.
Co-filing is limited and clustered
Only eight co-assignee pairs appear in the dataset, with the strongest pairs repeating across a small number of records — collaboration exists but is the exception rather than the norm in this field.
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Enfrients Inc. | 1 | — |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | — |
| Iridiel Communications Ltd. | 0 | — |
| CARDIAC INTELLIGENCE CORP | 0 | — |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP | 0 | — |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 0 | — |
| BARDY GUST H | 0 | — |
| Sports Data Labs, Inc. | 0 | -100% |
Where to take this analysis
The landscape points to where claim density is high and where it thins out — the next step is testing a specific claim idea or filer against that map.
Check a draft claim against the dense zones
G06F and G16H framings carry the highest claim density in this field; a new filing that overlaps heavily with either should be checked against the most-cited records before drafting continues.
Run a claim check in EurekaTrack a specific assignee's momentum
Recent-year filing has slowed even among the leading assignees — worth confirming whether a target company's activity reflects the field-wide pullback or a genuine strategic shift.
Monitor assignee activity in EurekaExplore the under-claimed branches
Electrotherapy, material-analysis diagnostics and AI-model-specific claims all sit below the density of the core informatics classes — a starting point for freedom-to-operate scoping.
Scope white space in EurekaCommon questions about this landscape
Within this 858-record dataset, the top-ranked assignee holds 55 records, roughly double the fifth-place count of 27 and more than triple the tenth-place count of 16. The top 5 assignees together account for 21.8% of all records and the top 10 for 33.6%, meaning the majority of filings still come from a long tail of smaller filers rather than a handful of dominant players. Anyone benchmarking a competitor should check both the leader's absolute count and their recent-year filing pace, since several historically active assignees show little to no filing in the most recent year.
Filing peaked at 71 records in 2022 and declined to 27 by 2024, a -57% move from 2021's 63 records — the last year-over-year comparison that can be treated as complete. Years after 2024 will keep filling in because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so the apparent drop in 2025 and 2026 overstates any real slowdown. The honest read is a post-peak pullback through 2024, not a confirmed multi-year decline into the present.
Data-processing categories lead: G06F (electric digital data processing) appears on 42.0% of the 858 records and G16H (healthcare informatics) on 41.7%, both ahead of A61B diagnostic and surgical hardware at 30.4%. G06Q business/administrative data processing follows at 26.8%, and H04L digital transmission at 14.2%. AI-specific claims under G06N sit at just 6.4%, suggesting most inventions are framed around health data handling and workflow rather than novel AI models themselves.
The thinner IPC categories point to it: A61N electrotherapy and radiation therapy (2.8% of records) and G01N material analysis and testing (2.9%) carry far less claim density than the core informatics classes. G06N AI-model claims, at 6.4%, are also comparatively open given how central AI language is to the field's messaging. These are starting points for scoping, not guarantees of clear freedom to operate — a full clearance search against the most-cited records is still necessary.
The United States is the largest single receiving office in this dataset at 377 records, but WIPO PCT filings (124) and European Patent Office filings (110) both represent substantial volume, with India (59), Australia (49) and Canada (37) also active. A filing strategy anchored only on US priority risks missing where competitors are actually extending family coverage. The PCT route in particular suggests many applicants are keeping international options open before committing to national phase.
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