HCA Healthcare, Inc. (HCA)
NYSE: HCA · Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, NEC · Nashville, TN · filing with the SEC since 1994
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Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026140 patents granted to the 18 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 HCA Healthcare, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
140
138 utility, 2 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
10
Against 11 in 2024 and 8 in 2023
Applications published
22
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
18
a subsidiary, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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
Digital communication27
Medical technology14
Computer technology14
Audio-visual technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name18 counted
C/HCA, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
HCA Holdings, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 published
Mobile Heartbeat, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 published
Medivision, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CH)
3 published
University Hospital a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
0 published
Smith Laboratories, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
HCA-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SERVICES, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Mobile Heartbeat, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 published
Acmed, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Galen Medical, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
HINSIGHT-MOBILE HEARTBEAT HOLDINGS, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Invivolink a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
JFK Medical Center a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
MED Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
RCH, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
VIP Corporation Co., Ltd. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in JP)
0 published
Valify, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
Names not counted (6)
Medical Specialties, Inc.
Medical Specialties, Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina makes orthopedic braces: 38 of its 40 patents print Charlotte, the newest a wrist brace. HCA's exhibit lists a Medical Specialties, Inc. organized in Georgia among its physician practices, and nothing in it ties that company to these patents.. 40 granted and 8 published under it are not counted.
Medical Specialties, Inc.
Medical Specialties, Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina makes orthopedic braces: 38 of its 40 patents print Charlotte, the newest a wrist brace. HCA's exhibit lists a Medical Specialties, Inc. organized in Georgia among its physician practices, and nothing in it ties that company to these patents.. 0 granted and 7 published under it are not counted.
Healthtrust Purchasing Group, L.P.
Also listed as a subsidiary by COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC. 2 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Med Corp., Inc.
Most of its patents print IT; this name counts in US. 1 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
COLUMBIA HEALTHCARE CORP
Most of its patents print KR; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
HealthPlus, LLC
Most of its patents print FR; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: IT methods for management 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.