Company Analysis

Fresenius Medical Care AG (FMS)

NYSE: FMS · Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, NEC · Bad Homburg, DE · filing with the SEC since 2005
Grade5.3
◀ Past 5.8● Present 4.9▶ Future 5.3
1 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

4 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Fresenius Medical Care AG’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
4
4 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 1 in 2024 and 2 in 2023
Applications published
27
5 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'16'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Medical technology2
Computer technology1
Digital communication1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in DE
0 granted
20 published
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA its own name
DE, as the owner printed on each patent
4 granted
7 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jan 7, 202512,191,028Safeguarding mechanisms for the operation of medical apparatuses using disposables in a dialysis environmentDigital communicationFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
May 21, 202411,990,947Method and system for non-electric communication in water treatment plants or medical appliancesMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Sep 19, 202311,759,556Parabiotic dialysis systems and techniquesMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Jul 4, 202311,693,489Contactless operation of medical devices using a pointing apparatusComputer technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 6, 20252025/0342949DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVELY PERFORMING SAMPLING AND/OR DISINFECTIONMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Nov 6, 20252025/0342948DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE INTERACTIVE RELEASE OF AN OPERATING MODEMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Nov 6, 20252025/0339592BLOOD TREATMENT DEVICEMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Mar 13, 20252025/0087344Safeguarding Mechanism for the Operation of Medical Apparatuses Using Disposables in a Dialysis EnvironmentDigital communicationFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Mar 6, 20252025/0079022PATIENT POPULATION FLOW MODELINGMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Oct 17, 20242024/0346213FEEDBACK-BASED PREDICTION OF MEDICAL DEVICE DEFECTSControlFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Aug 8, 20242024/0266039Home Dialysis Machine Network Including Walk-Up Service CentersMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Apr 11, 20242024/0115780Computer System for Specifying Adjustable Settings of a Blood Treatment ApparatusMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Jan 11, 20242024/0012934HEALTHCARE-ACTIVITY TRIGGERED DATA MANAGEMENTComputer technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Dec 28, 20232023/0414846PARABIOTIC DIALYSIS SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUESMedical technologyFresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Medical technology 6 · Computer technology 1 · Control 1 · Digital communication 1.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton FMS · research, not advice