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Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific is an innovator of medical solutions that improve patient health.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Healthcare Services & Equipment |
| Website | https://www.bostonscientific.com/ |
Between 2015 and 2025, Boston Scientific researchers released13 AI research articles
- #231in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 9.77citations per AI article on average (#302 in PARAT, #190 in the S&P 500)
- 1highly cited articles (#197 in PARAT, #107 in the S&P 500)
- -75%growth in Boston Scientific's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 0articles at top AI conferences (#208 in PARAT, #109 in the S&P 500)
- 0.7%of Boston Scientific's total public research was AI-focused
Boston Scientific's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 3 | 1.3 | N/A |
| NLP publications | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Robotics publications | 2 | 6 | N/A |
| AI safety publications | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Large language model publications | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Between 2015 and 2025, Boston Scientific filed132 AI-related patents
- #107in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- -2.8%growth in Boston Scientific's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 54AI-related patents were granted to Boston Scientific (2017–2020)
- 2.9%of Boston Scientific's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Boston Scientific's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 75 | 37.41% |
| Computer vision patents | 41 | 33.33% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 7 | -16.67% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 1 | -100% |
| Language processing patents | 0 | N/A |
Top use cases across Boston Scientific's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Life sciences patents | 119 | -4.4% |
| Security patents | 3 | N/A |
| Personal devices and computing patents | 2 | -100% |
| Telecommunications patents | 2 | N/A |
| Physical sciences and engineering patents | 1 | -100% |
187
AI jobs
According to our data, Boston Scientific currently employs about 187 AI workers (#191 rank in PARAT, #144 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
1,322
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Boston Scientific currently employs about 1,322 Tech Team 1 workers (#235 rank in PARAT, #183 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.