Remote Patient Monitoring Patents: Who Leads, Filing Trends 2026
- Filing nearly tripled from 2021 to 2024, up 145% from 31 to 76 records, before the two most recent years understate volume due to publication lag.
- The top 5 assignees hold 32.4% of all 352 records, with the leader alone at 45 filings — well ahead of a long tail of single-digit filers.
- Healthcare informatics (G16H) touches 55.4% of records, but vehicle propulsion (B60K) and traffic control (G08G) each sit at just 13.9%, suggesting mobility-linked monitoring is comparatively open.
Filing growth compares 2021 (31 records) with 2024 (76) — 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 352 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
What this landscape covers
This landscape tracks 352 published patent records filed between 2015 and mid-2026 that combine remote patient monitoring or virtual care platform claims with an operational layer: device provisioning, alert triage, staffing models, data integration, patient onboarding or billing code logic. That pairing separates platform-and-process patents from pure sensor or device hardware filings, and it is why the technology composition leans so heavily toward G16H healthcare informatics and H04L data transmission rather than diagnostic instrumentation alone.
Filing activity is concentrated in a small number of jurisdictions and a short list of assignees, but the technology composition shows several IPC subclasses sitting well under 15% of records — a signal that the operational side of remote monitoring, not just the sensing side, still has room for new claim territory.
Filing trends and technology composition
Two views of the same 352-record corpus: filing volume by year, and the IPC subclasses those records fall into. Because a single record can carry several classes, the technology shares add up to more than 100% of the record total.
A three-year acceleration, then a lag-affected tail
Annual filings rose from 9 in 2017 to a recorded peak of 86 in 2025, with the 2021-to-2024 span alone showing a 145% increase (31 to 76 records). The 2025 and 2026 figures will keep revising upward as publication catches up to filing, so they should not be read as a plateau or decline.
Informatics and connectivity dominate, mobility applications lag
G16H healthcare informatics appears in 55.4% of the 352 records and A61B diagnosis/surgery in 34.1%, reflecting the corpus's focus on platform and clinical-workflow claims. H04L data transmission (30.7%) and G06F data processing (21.6%) round out the core stack, while G06N (AI models), G07C (attendance/checking), B60K (vehicle propulsion) and G08G (traffic control) each sit between 13.9% and 14.8% — a much thinner claim base around AI-driven triage and mobility-linked monitoring.
Shares are the percentage of the 352 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
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Remote patient monitoring and care coordination platform to support hypertension care optimization
A system and method for remote monitoring of a hypertension patient including enrolling a hypertension patient in a remote patient monitoring application configured for a smartphone of the patient, receiving by the remote patient monitoring application patient blood pressure data from a blood pressure monitor, transmitting via the remote patient monitoring application the patient blood pressure data to a medical professional's application, receiving via the remote patient monitoring application one or more tasks from the medical professional's application, and transmitting results of the one or more tasks via the remote patient monitoring application to the medical professional's application.Filed by Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company, published 2024-10-31, this record ties a specific condition (hypertension) to a task-routing loop between patient app and clinician app — a claim structure narrower than the platform-level filings that dominate the top of the ranking.
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20130201316A1 | System and method for server based control | 1,722 |
| 2 | US20030036683A1 | Method, system and computer program product for internet-enabled, patient monitoring system | 1,389 |
| 3 | US20190373472A1 | Method and System for IoT Code and Configuration using Smart Contracts | 227 |
| 4 | US20210075860A1 | System and method for server based control | 139 |
| 5 | US20190307405A1 | Patient risk assessment based on data from multiple sources in a healthcare facility | 134 |
| 6 | US20190336085A1 | Patient risk assessment based on data from multiple sources in a healthcare facility | 126 |
| 7 | US20230367833A1 | Emulating Web Browser in a Dedicated Intermediary Box | 104 |
| 8 | US20170078400A1 | System and method for server based control | 99 |
| 9 | US20200135334A1 | Devices and methods for remotely managing chronic medical conditions | 86 |
| 10 | US20200066415A1 | Interfaces displaying patient data | 85 |
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Three findings stand out once the concentration, growth and technology figures are read together.
The top of the field is narrow, the rest is long
The leading assignee holds 45 records on its own, and the top 5 combined account for 32.4% of all 352 records in scope. Past tenth place the field drops to single-digit filers, meaning most of the corpus is held by entities filing once or twice.
Three years of sustained acceleration
Filings grew from 31 in 2021 to 76 in 2024, a 145% increase over that span, before the count reached a recorded 86 in 2025. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the 2025-2026 figures are still incomplete and should not be read as a slowdown.
Mobility-linked monitoring is comparatively open
While G16H healthcare informatics reaches 55.4% of the 352 records, B60K vehicle propulsion and G08G traffic control each sit at 13.9% — the thinnest coverage among the eight tracked subclasses. That gap points to less-claimed territory around in-vehicle or transit-linked patient monitoring.
Filing is US- and India-heavy
The United States accounts for 184 records and India for 115, together covering the large majority of the corpus, while WIPO PCT filings (27) and Europe, Canada and Australia combined make up a much smaller share.
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Who is filing, and where momentum is shifting
The assignee ranking spans 100 companies and research entities, from a single leader at 45 records down to filers with one or two. Recent-year momentum diverges sharply from the leaderboard.
One assignee well ahead of the field
The top-ranked assignee holds 45 records, nearly four times the fifth-place count of 11, and well over the tenth-place count of 5. That gap is the clearest sign of a first-mover advantage in platform-level claims.
Academic and research entities are the fastest movers
Two research-affiliated assignees show the strongest recent-year activity: one filed 10 records in the latest year, and another grew filings by 400% year-on-year. Neither sits among the top filers by total volume, which suggests momentum is not concentrated solely in incumbent platform vendors.
Some established filers have gone quiet in the most recent year
Several assignees with meaningful historical volume show zero recorded filings in the latest year. Given the 18-month publication lag, this may reflect pending applications not yet published rather than an actual pause in R&D.
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| MEENAKSHI ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION & RES | 10 | — |
| SR UNIVERSITY | 5 | +400% |
| May Patents Ltd | 2 | -86% |
| Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | 0 | — |
| BRIGHT DATA LTD | 0 | — |
| CAREPREDICT | 0 | — |
| SMURRO JAMES PAUL | 0 | — |
| BIG SKY LABS INC | 0 | — |
Where to take this next
The dataset points to a handful of concrete next steps for teams evaluating filing or freedom-to-operate positions in this space.
Check freedom-to-operate around the informatics core
With G16H and A61B together touching well over half the corpus, new platform claims need a targeted clearance search against the leading assignees' portfolios before drafting.
Run a clearance search in Eureka →Watch the under-claimed mobility and staffing branches
B60K, G08G and G07C subclasses each sit near 14% of records, meaning vehicle-linked monitoring and staffing-model automation carry less prior art density than the informatics core.
Explore white space in Eureka →Track momentum outside the top filers
The fastest year-on-year growth is coming from academic and research-affiliated assignees rather than the historical leaders, which changes who to monitor for competitive filings going forward.
Set up assignee monitoring in Eureka →Common questions about this landscape
One assignee leads the ranked field with 45 records, well ahead of the fifth-place holder at 11 and the tenth-place holder at 5. The top 5 assignees combined account for 32.4% of all 352 records in scope, and the top 10 account for 42.6%. Past that point the ranking of 100 assignees thins into a long tail of companies and research entities with only one or two filings each, so competitive risk is concentrated at the top rather than spread evenly.
Filing grew substantially through the recent complete-data period, rising from 31 records in 2021 to 76 in 2024, a 145% increase. The recorded count reached 86 in 2025, but because patent publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the 2025 and 2026 figures are still incomplete and will revise upward. There is no evidence in this dataset of an actual slowdown; the apparent flattening in the most recent years is a data-lag artifact, not a market signal.
Healthcare informatics (IPC class G16H) appears in 55.4% of the 352 records, making it the dominant classification, followed by diagnosis and surgery methods (A61B) at 34.1% and digital data transmission (H04L) at 30.7%. AI-based computing (G06N), attendance/checking systems (G07C), vehicle propulsion (B60K) and traffic control (G08G) each sit between roughly 14% and 15%, indicating far less claim density around AI-driven triage logic and mobility-linked monitoring than around the core platform and connectivity layers.
The United States is the leading receiving office with 184 records, followed by India at 115, together covering the majority of the 352-record corpus. WIPO's PCT route accounts for 27 filings, with Europe, Canada and Australia each contributing single-digit to low double-digit counts. This distribution suggests that while international protection is being sought through PCT, the bulk of substantive examination activity in this field runs through the US and Indian patent offices.
The technology composition data points to vehicle-linked and mobility-integrated monitoring (B60K, G08G) and attendance-based checking systems (G07C) as the thinnest-claimed branches, each around 13.9% to 14.5% of the 352 records, compared to 55.4% for core healthcare informatics claims. Staffing-model automation and billing-code integration, both part of the search criteria for this dataset, also appear less saturated than the platform and data-transmission core. A freedom-to-operate search focused on these narrower branches is more likely to surface open claim territory than one aimed at the informatics core.
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