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| Figure/Metric | Value | Source | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Tuesday Grant Dates | 7 | USPTO Calendar / News | Number of discrete issuance events in the window. |
| Average Utility Allowance Rate | 78.5% | JD Supra (June 2026) | Post-PAP implementation rate (down from 81.9%). |
| FDA AI/ML Medical Device Approvals | 171 | Country Data (2024) | Indicator of volume in the target technical intersection. |
| Alphabet (GOOGL) Q1 2026 R&D | $17.03B | Equity Fundamentals | Proxy for high-intensity AI innovation activity. |
| Total U.S. Utility Patents (2020) | 352,010 | FRED (PATENTALLALLUTILITY) | Baseline for total annual patent grant volume. |
| AI in Healthcare Market Growth | 47.2% CAGR | MENAFN (May 2026) | Projected market expansion driving patent filings. |
My analysis begins by defining the operational window for patent issuance. U.S. utility patents are officially granted on Tuesdays. The window from June 16, 2026, to July 30, 2026, includes exactly seven grant dates: June 16, 23, 30, and July 7, 14, 21, and 28. Based on historical USPTO volumes, which typically average between 6,000 and 7,000 utility patents per week, the total pool of patents issued during this period will be approximately 42,000 to 49,000.
The core of the forecast involves estimating the ‘incidence rate’ of the specific intersection between CPC G16H50 (Healthcare ICT for diagnosis and data mining) and CPC G06N3 (Neural networks and biological computing models). This is a niche but rapidly expanding sector. Evidence from the ‘news’ and ‘country_data_summary’ nodes indicates a surge in AI-related medical activity, such as the FDA’s approval of 171 AI/ML-enabled medical devices in 2024 and the growth of the AI cancer diagnostics market at a 21.5% year-over-year rate. Major players like GE HealthCare, Alphabet (DeepMind), and Tempus AI have significantly increased R&D spending, which serves as a leading indicator for patent filings.
However, several moderating factors must be considered. First, patent grants reflect applications filed 2-4 years prior; thus, the 2026 grant volume is tied more to the R&D environment of 2022-2024 than to the immediate market hype of 2026. Second, the USPTO implemented a new Examiner Performance Appraisal Plan (PAP) in October 2025. Data as of June 2026 shows that this policy shift contributed to a decrease in the overall average allowance rate from 81.9% to roughly 78.5%. This tightening of standards acts as a structural headwind against an explosive increase in grant counts. Furthermore, legal precedents like ‘Alice’ and ‘Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp’ continue to pose eligibility hurdles for software-based inventions that do not demonstrate a “practical application” beyond abstract machine learning.
Combining these factors, I expect a weekly average of approximately 9.5 patents to satisfy both CPC criteria. Over seven weeks, this results in a central estimate of 66.50 patents. I have modeled the uncertainty using a mixture of distributions to account for the possibility of ‘batching’—where the USPTO might release a large cluster of related patents on a single day—and the ‘long-tail’ potential of the AI sector. The 50% HDI of 46.50 to 84.50 captures the most probable outcome space, while the 80% HDI extends to 104.50 to account for higher-than-expected concentration in AI diagnostics. Probability mass is also assigned to the ‘low’ end (down to 29.50) to account for potential data ingestion lags or stricter-than-anticipated classification by USPTO examiners.
Question: how many distinct U.S. utility patents issued on the seven normal-Tuesday issue dates from June 16 through July 28, 2026 will carry a CPC symbol beginning with G16H 50 (medical/health ICT) AND a symbol beginning with G06N 3 (biologically‑inspired computing / neural nets) in the USPTO snapshot read on Aug. 11, 2026. Forecasters agree the target is a narrow intersection of CPC prefixes (include child/subgroups) and that the intersection is recurring but “sparse and lumpy” in 2025–2026 spot checks rather than ubiquitous. The major operational risk is dataset freshness: CPCMCPT/ODP snapshots available by Aug. 11 may or may not include late‑July grants, so the resolving count could be biased downward if July 21/28 cohorts are omitted. Methodological guidance: construct a patent‑level join of current CPC rows to utility grants in the date window, flag patents that match normalized prefixes G16H50% and G06N3%, and count distinct patent IDs (avoid row-level AND filters). Numerically, teams’ central estimates vary: modes/medians cluster in the low‑20s to low‑30s (some teams ~20–30, others ~35–45), with consensus on substantial right‑tail uncertainty but essentially no realistic probability of exceeding ~200 and a modest lower tail for <10 if ingestion is incomplete. The biggest disagreement is scale of the median/right tail (some favor ~25–30, others ~35–45) driven by differing assumptions about growth/reclassification and whether bulk CPC data will include all July grants.
Forecast: Probability distribution:
We are counting distinct US utility patents granted across the 7 Tuesday grant dates from June 16, 2026 through July 28, 2026 (the inclusive June 16–July 30 window effectively captures those 7 weekly grant batches). The key uncertainty is the weekly rate of patents that simultaneously receive (in the USPTO ODP “current CPC” snapshot used at resolution) at least one G16H50 code (medical diagnosis/data-mining ICT) and at least one G06N3 code (neural networks).
Across the four analyst forecasts, the main disagreement is the implied weekly intersection rate: Forecaster 3’s distribution corresponds to a low rate (~7/week at the median), while Forecasters 1–2 imply a mid rate (~13–18/week at the median), and Forecaster 4 implies a high rate (~24/week at the median) with substantial probability of exceeding the platform’s in-range upper bound.
I discount the lowest forecast somewhat because the intersection of “medical diagnosis/data-mining ICT” with “neural networks” is plausibly common in 2026 grants (deep learning is a dominant technique in many diagnostic/data-mining inventions), and I discount the highest forecast because it relies on aggressive overlap assumptions (e.g., very large fractions of all G16H50 being tagged with G06N3) without direct intersection counting. The most defensible center is therefore between Forecasters 1 and 2, with a median around ~115 total patents over the 7 issues (about ~16/week). I keep a wide upper tail to reflect (i) rapid AI-related patenting growth feeding into 2026 grants, and (ii) classification/practice variability in whether inventions are tagged specifically with G06N3 versus nearby AI groups; this yields a meaningful but not dominant chance that the total exceeds 200 (open-above tail).
An amateur forecast is likely to (a) anchor on the numeric bounds and pick an arbitrary midpoint, (b) ignore that the window corresponds to 7 weekly grant batches (not uniform daily arrivals), and/or (c) assume near-independence between the two CPC groups, which would understate the overlap given their strong real-world correlation in medical AI. This forecast instead synthesizes the analysts’ implied per-week rates, explicitly ties the count to the 7-issue structure, and preserves uncertainty from CPC assignment conventions by keeping a materially wide upper tail (including open-above mass) while not adopting the most aggressive overlap assumptions. Confidence is moderate: the direction (non-trivial overlap; not near-zero) is robust, but exact co-classification frequency is hard to pin down without directly querying the ODP snapshot used for resolution.
Forecast rationale (numeric):
— Iteration 1 — Across the forecasts, the reasoning is broadly consistent:
There is general agreement that the answer should be in the several-dozen range, with the main uncertainty coming from whether the dataset will capture the full late-July issuance tail and how rapidly this patent niche is expanding. The central tendency lands in the mid-60s to low-80s, but the distribution is wide to accommodate both publication lag and potential upside from accelerating AI patent activity.
— Iteration 2 — Across the forecasts, the main reasoning is broadly consistent:
Overall, the collective reasoning points to a modest but rising count of AI-health patents, with the most plausible outcomes concentrated in the tens to low hundreds over the specified window.
Based on the rationales provided, the forecast is driven by four primary qualitative factors, ranging from structural USPTO scheduling to macro-level technological trends and data ingestion risks:
Question: How many U.S. utility patents with an official grant (issue) date between June 16, 2026 and July 30, 2026 (inclusive) will be classified under both CPC group G16H50/00 and CPC group G06N3/00? Final Prediction: Probability distribution:
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Forecaster 1: Probability distribution:
Forecaster 2: Probability distribution:
The research frames the question as counting U.S. utility patents issued between June 16 and July 30, 2026 that are dually classified in CPC G16H50/00 (ICT for medical diagnosis, simulation, data mining, epidemic modeling) and G06N3/00 (computing arrangements based on biological models, e.g., neural networks). It compiles USPTO grant-volume base rates (annual totals ~324k–327k in 2024–2025 and an average ~890 utility patents/day), yielding an expectation of roughly 40,000–41,000 utility patents issued in the 45-day window. Using an AI-telemedicine historical baseline (study reporting ~282 AI-medical patents/year in a 2022–2024 “maturity” phase) and estimating that 40–60% of those use neural-network methods and would carry both CPC tags, the research derives a central estimate of about 15–25 dually-classified patents in the 45-day period (plausible range ~5–40).
The briefing also summarizes contextual factors that could shift that estimate: late‑2025 USPTO policy memos favoring pro-AI allowances, growth in FDA-authorized AI-enabled medical devices, prominent corporate filers (Siemens, IBM, GE, etc.), and examples such as EPO-granted Ada Health patents and medical-imaging neural-network research. It notes key limitations and uncertainties including lack of a historical dataset specifically tracking the G16H50 + G06N3 intersection, CPC reclassification changes, USPTO timing variability, and small absolute counts making statistical inference fragile. The research found no active prediction markets specific to this question.
Sources/websites used (as given in the research; links provided where possible):
I’ll provide you with a comprehensive research briefing on this patent forecasting question, including relevant news, base rates, and context. Unfortunately, I did not find any active prediction markets specifically for this question.
This question asks about U.S. utility patents at the intersection of:
Annual Grant Totals:
Daily/Weekly Rates:
Growth Trajectory: The AI-telemedicine patent study [14] analyzing 1,451 patents from 1992-2024 identified three lifecycle stages:
Key Classification Intersections Identified [14]:
Calculation approach:
Important caveats:
Director John Squires’ Pro-AI Stance [1]:
Memoranda Signaling Higher Grant Rates [4]:
Ada Health (Europe) [7]:
AI Medical Imaging Research [5]:
Top Medical AI Patent Holders:
Geographic Filing Patterns [17]:
Structural Analogy: The 2026 study on Chinese AI-pharma patents [8] found that G16B (bioinformatics) serves as a critical “bridging hub” between computing (G06F) and healthcare applications, with high combinatorial intensity. Similarly, G16H50 + G06N3 represents a bridging classification at the AI-healthcare intersection.
Technology Maturity: Patents at this intersection are likely in “maturity phase” based on the lifecycle analysis [14], suggesting:
Data Gaps:
Forecasting Challenges:
No specific markets found for this question. The search identified Metaculus’s forecasting-tools framework [22] but no active prediction markets on patent classification questions.
Central estimate: 15-25 patents in the 45-day period, with substantial uncertainty (plausible range: 5-40)
Key factors to monitor:
Outside view anchor: This represents approximately 0.04-0.06% of all utility patents in the period, consistent with a niche but established technology intersection in its maturity phase.
(a) Time left until the outcome is known: About 56 days, from today, June 16, 2026, until the resolving read on August 11, 2026 at 23:59 U.S. Eastern Time, conditional on the question not being annulled.
(b) Outside view: The natural reference class is seven weekly USPTO utility-patent grant cohorts at the AI-healthcare intersection. The USPTO Official Gazette says patent issues are published weekly on Tuesdays, and the June 16–July 30, 2026 window contains seven normal Tuesday issue dates: June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 14, July 21, and July 28. (uspto.gov) The provided research’s outside-view anchor is roughly 15–25 patents for a 45-day window, based on stabilized AI-telemedicine/AI-health patent activity and adjustment for requiring both G16H50 and G06N3. The official CPC schedule confirms that G16H50/00 covers ICT for medical diagnosis, simulation, medical data mining, and epidemic/pandemic modeling, while G06N3/00 covers computing arrangements based on biological models, including neural networks under G06N3/02 and related subgroups. (uspto.gov)
(c) Inside view: The exact target is broader than “telemedicine” because G16H50 includes diagnosis, risk assessment, simulation, medical data mining, and epidemic modeling, so I modestly update upward from a narrow AI-telemedicine base. However, it is also narrower than “medical AI patents” because it requires the same granted utility patent to carry both a current G16H50-group symbol and a current G06N3-group symbol. Official Gazette spot checks show that qualifying-looking patents do appear in ordinary weekly issues—for example, June 17, 2025 included patents with both G16H50 and G06N3-type symbols—but the visible rate is in the “a few per week” range, not dozens per week. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
(d) Outcome if nothing changed: About 22 patents. This is the center of the provided 15–25 base-rate range, scaled to seven weekly issue dates.
(e) Outcome if the current trend continued: About 25–30 patents. Continued growth in neural-network medical diagnosis/data-mining patents and somewhat more favorable AI-patent allowance conditions would push the count above the static base rate, but not by an order of magnitude.
(f) Expectations of experts and markets: I am not aware of a live prediction market for this exact CPC-intersection question. The provided research synthesis centers on 15–25 patents, with a plausible range of roughly 5–40. The question creator’s bounds—unlikely below 10 and unlikely above 200—mainly constrain the tails; I put very little mass below 10 and essentially negligible mass above 200.
(g) Unexpected low scenario: A low result could happen if the seven issue weeks are light for medical-AI grants, if many otherwise relevant patents are classified under G06N20, G06V, G06T, or G16H30/40 but not current G06N3, or if a few large assignee clusters miss the window by one or two issue weeks. That could pull the final count into the high single digits.
(h) Unexpected high scenario: A high result could happen if multiple large filers—medical imaging, diagnostics, genomics, clinical-decision-support, and wearable-device companies—have clustered allowances issuing during these seven weeks, or if current CPC reclassification broadly adds G06N3 symbols to AI-health patents. That could push the result above 50, though I still see 100+ as a tail event and 200+ as extremely unlikely.
Rationale: I anchor on the outside view of 15–25 patents for a 45-day window. The target period contains seven normal USPTO Tuesday issue dates, so the relevant unit is seven weekly grant batches rather than a smooth daily process. The exact CPC definition nudges the forecast in both directions: upward because G16H50 is broad within medical informatics and includes diagnosis/data mining, and downward because the patent must also carry a current G06N3 neural-network/biological-model symbol. The provided report’s annual AI-health base rate implies around the mid-20s before uncertainty; my median is 24.1 patents. I widen the distribution because weekly patent issuance is lumpy, CPC assignments can be broad or narrow, and a few institutional assignees can materially affect a seven-week count.
Percentile 0.1: 3.2
Percentile 1: 6.4
Percentile 5: 9.4
Percentile 10: 12.6
Percentile 20: 16.1
Percentile 30: 18.8
Percentile 40: 21.3
Percentile 50: 24.1
Percentile 60: 27.2
Percentile 70: 31.0
Percentile 80: 36.2
Percentile 90: 45.8
Percentile 95: 57.4
Percentile 99: 86.5
Percentile 99.9: 145.0
(a) Time left: About 56 days until the resolution read on August 11, 2026 at 23:59 U.S. Eastern Time, conditional on the question not being annulled.
(b) Outside view: The reference class is a 7-week USPTO grant-window count for a narrow dual-CPC intersection: health/medical diagnosis/data-mining informatics plus neural-network computing. USPTO grant issues are published weekly on Tuesdays; this window includes 7 Tuesday issue dates: June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 14, July 21, and July 28, 2026. The Official Gazette page confirms weekly Tuesday publication and that issues can be browsed by classification/type. (uspto.gov) The research briefing’s outside-view anchor of roughly 15–25 patents is plausible: about 40,000 total utility grants in the window, with only a small fraction in both G16H50 and G06N3.
(c) Inside view: I update slightly upward from a naive “rare intersection” estimate because the overlap is a real, mature cluster: clinical decision support, diagnosis, medical data mining, and AI/neural-network models are now routinely co-classified. However, I do not update sharply upward: many medical-AI patents are classified under adjacent health groups such as G16H30, G16H40, A61B, or G06V without necessarily receiving G16H50, and many G16H50 patents use statistical/machine-learning methods that may not receive G06N3. PatentsView/ODP’s current-CPC structure matters because the relevant field is current CPC group assignment, and the PatentSearch documentation explicitly includes nested cpc_current.cpc_group/cpc_group_id fields. (search.patentsview.org)
(d) Outcome if nothing changed: Around 20 patents.
(e) Outcome if the current trend continued: Around 23–27 patents, reflecting continued AI-health activity and possible modest growth in neural-network-based clinical inventions.
(f) Expectations of experts and markets: I found no direct prediction market. The research assistant’s central range is 15–25 patents, and the question creator’s guidance implies they view below 10 and above 200 as unlikely. I agree: below 10 is possible but a clear downside tail; above 200 is extremely unlikely absent a classification or data-definition surprise.
(g) Unexpected low scenario: A sparse set of issue weeks, combined with many AI-health patents being classified in G16H30/G06V/G06F rather than G16H50 plus G06N3, yields only a handful of qualifying dual-coded patents; or a snapshot/data-ingestion issue at resolution time suppresses late-June/July records.
(h) Unexpected high scenario: A cluster of grants from large medical-imaging, diagnostics, and clinical-AI filers issues during these exact 7 Tuesdays, and current-CPC reclassification broadly adds G16H50 and G06N3 to the same patents, pushing the count toward 50+.
Rationale: I anchor on the outside-view base rate of roughly 15–25 from the research briefing and the 7-week total-grant window. The most important adjustment is that this is not all “AI in healthcare”; it is a stricter same-patent dual-CPC condition. That pulls down relative to broad AI-health activity. On the other hand, G16H50 plus G06N3 is a canonical classification pairing for neural-network diagnosis/data-mining systems, so I do not expect a single-digit result unless there is data lag or classification mismatch. My median is 23 patents, with moderate right skew for clustered grants and current-CPC reclassification effects.
Percentile 0.1: 3.1
Percentile 1: 5.1
Percentile 5: 9.6
Percentile 10: 12.1
Percentile 20: 15.1
Percentile 30: 18.1
Percentile 40: 20.1
Percentile 50: 23.1
Percentile 60: 26.1
Percentile 70: 29.1
Percentile 80: 34.1
Percentile 90: 42.1
Percentile 95: 51.1
Percentile 99: 73.1
Percentile 99.9: 115.1
Modal: 81-105 (22.7%) • frontier aggregate • 4m47s
Resolution sources/checks:
Edge cases:
frontier_1 — Modal: 81-105 (32.0%)
Estimate based on USPTO’s weekly Tuesday grant cadence across seven grant days in the window, typical total weekly grant volumes, and plausible CPC overlap shares: G16H50 represents a small fraction of all grants, and within that, a substantial minority use G06N3 (neural nets) for medical imaging/diagnosis/clinical decision support.
frontier_2 — Modal: 58-81 (20.0%)
The question asks for US utility patents granted in a 45-day window (June 16 – July 30, 2026, covering 7 grant Tuesdays: 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28) classified under both G16H50 (medical ICT/diagnosis) AND G06N3 (neural networks/deep learning). This intersection captures medical-AI patents which have been one of the fastest-growing patent areas….
frontier_3 — Modal: 105-129 (22.0%)
The observation window encompasses exactly 7 weekly patent grant dates (Tuesdays) from June 16, 2026 to July 28, 2026. The total number of U. S.
frontier_4 — Modal: Below 10 (62.0%)
Narrow CPC intersection (G16H50 medical AI + G06N3 neural nets) yields very low historical overlap rates. The 45-day window captures roughly 12% of annual grants (~5k total utility patents); expected qualifying overlap is low single digits to low teens, placing the bulk of probability mass in bin_0 and bin_1 with a thin right tail.
All agents cited the authoritative resolver (USPTO ODP / PatentsView) and the exact date/CPC-prefix resolution rules, but none provided a direct count from that snapshot. Instead they used prior-based scaling, literature, or aggregate USPTO volume to build their distributions.
Revision: 1 lane(s) revised. Attempted revision for frontier_4; changed frontier_4.
| Bin | Probability |
|---|---|
| Below 10 | 4.4% |
| 10-34 | 6.6% |
| 34-58 | 11.4% |
| 58-81 | 19.0% |
| 81-105 | 22.7% |
| 105-129 | 17.4% |
| 129-153 | 9.7% |
| 153-176 | 4.8% |
| 176-200 | 2.4% |
| Above 200 | 1.5% |
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Forecast (median): 59.4 U.S. utility patents
The resolving count is the number of distinct U.S. utility patents whose official issue date falls between Tuesday, June 16, 2026 and Thursday, July 30, 2026, inclusive, and that have at least one current CPC under G16H50 and at least one current CPC under G06N3. The USPTO CPC scheme defines G16H 50/00 as ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation, medical data mining, and epidemic/pandemic modeling, and G06N 3/00 as computing arrangements based on biological models, with G06N 3/02 covering neural networks. For implementation, the most relevant USPTO products are the grant CPC master classification files (CPCMCPT), the weekly patent-grant files (PTGRDT), and the USPTO Patent Public Search guides, which say granted U.S. patents are searchable in the USPAT database and that .CPC. searches current CPC classifications. I did not rely on the public PatentsView/PatentSearch interface for current 2026 counts because the latest public release note I found says that update only contained data through December 31, 2024. (uspto.gov)
PTGRDT is issued weekly on Tuesdays, so I treat this 45-day window as essentially seven weekly grant cohorts: June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 14, July 21, and July 28, 2026. That matters because the count should scale more like seven issue batches than forty-five independent daily opportunities. This is an inference from the USPTO’s weekly-Tuesday grant production pattern rather than a guarantee about every downstream interface, but it is the right base-rate frame for a grant-date forecast. (data.uspto.gov)
For a rough lower-bound cross-check, public patent pages surfaced at least two clearly qualifying grants on July 25, 2023, one on June 24, 2025, and one on July 8, 2025. The July 25, 2023 examples were an LSTM disease-prediction patent and an AI-dispatch-in-healthcare patent; the June 24, 2025 example was a deep-learning ICU acuity/mortality prediction patent; the July 8, 2025 example was a geometric deep-learning brain-feature prediction patent. Those are not authoritative counts for those dates, but they do show that the intersection appears regularly and is not a zero-rate corner case. Because search-engine retrieval is incomplete and because resolution uses current CPC assignments at a later snapshot, I treat these observed hits as minimums and then adjust upward modestly rather than taking them literally. (patents.justia.com)
My central estimate is 12 patents, roughly 1.7 per Tuesday cohort. That is above the search-snippet minimum pace, allows for continued growth in neural-network healthcare patenting into 2026, and still recognizes that the intersection is specialized enough that a dozens-per-week regime would be surprising. I use a negative-binomial distribution with mean 12.0 and variance 21.6, which gives meaningful mass both just below and just above 10 and leaves a long but very thin upper tail. One additional nuance is that the G06N scheme explicitly notes ongoing reclassification within several G06N3 descendants; because this question resolves at the broader G06N3 group level, much of that internal reshuffling should stay inside the counted umbrella, but snapshot timing can still move a few patents at the margin. (uspto.gov)
I treated the target window as seven weekly grant cohorts, because the Official Gazette for Patents is published weekly on Tuesday; inside June 16, 2026 through July 30, 2026, that means the relevant issue dates are June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 14, July 21, and July 28. The July 30 endpoint is inclusive, but it is a Thursday, so it does not add an extra ordinary patent-issue day. (uspto.gov)
I could not directly pull an exact historical intersection series from the public USPTO tools during this session. The Patent File Wrapper API documentation says the relevant endpoints require an API key, and the latest public PatentsView documentation I found still described PatentSearch data as updated only through September 30, 2025. Because of that, I estimated from official USPTO Gazette classification pages plus individual Gazette patent pages that explicitly show CPC assignments. (data.uspto.gov)
For the G16H50 side, sampled weekly Gazette G16 classification pages suggest a typical weekly flow in the high single digits but with substantial week-to-week noise. In one sampled week, the G16 page shows a run under G16H 50/20, 50/30, and 50/70 totaling about 10 patents; in another, the same part of the page totals about 12; in another, only about 2. I am inferring the totals by reading blank continuation rows as remaining in the last shown subgroup, which is the standard table layout visible in the snippets. That gives me a rough weekly G16H50 rate around 8 to 9, with wide variance. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
For the G06N3 side, the sampled week-09 G06 classification page is much larger. The snippet shows G06N 3/04 through G06N 3/094 running from patent 12566939 through 12566972, and then moving to G06N 5/02 at 12566973, which implies about 34 G06N3 patents in that week before the page transitions out of the G06N3 group. So the neural-network pool is much larger than the G16H50 pool; the intersection is therefore constrained mainly by how many G16H50 patents also pick up G06N3, not the other way around. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
Explicit overlap examples definitely exist and are not vanishingly rare. US 12,518,144 B2, issued January 6, 2026, carries G06N 3/048 and G06N 3/084 together with G16H 50/70. US 12,333,443 B2, issued June 17, 2025, carries G06N 3/098 together with G16H 50/20. US 12,380,986 B2, issued August 5, 2025, carries G06N 3/04 and G06N 3/08 together with multiple G16H50 codes including 50/20, 50/30, and 50/70. These examples support a meaningful, not merely accidental, overlap rate between neural-network patents and the medical-diagnosis / medical-data-mining slice of G16H. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
My central judgment is that roughly 35% to 45% of G16H50 grants in this period will also carry G06N3. That is well above the unconditional base rate because the relevant G16H50 subgroups are exactly the parts of health IT where neural-network claims are common, but it is comfortably below 100% because many health-ICT patents still rely on non-neural analytics, workflow systems, signal processing, rules, or other software techniques. Combining a weekly G16H50 rate around 8 to 9 with an overlap share near 0.4 over seven Tuesdays yields an expectation near 27 to 28 patents. I then nudged slightly upward for the continued AI-health patenting wave and for the fact that current-CPC datasets are retrospectively refreshed, which can modestly increase dual-tag counts by resolution time. PatentsView explicitly notes that its updates integrate the most recent CPC and apply it retrospectively to all patents. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
So my point forecast is 27.6, and I represent uncertainty with a moderately overdispersed negative-binomial distribution rather than a tight Poisson. That leaves real room for a softer run in the mid-teens or a hotter run in the upper-30s / low-40s, while still keeping very low probability on outcomes below 10 and essentially no probability anywhere near 200.
What I found, and why it was insufficient for a tighter estimate: the official public pages gave me good weekly samples for G16H50, a good weekly sample for G06N3, and several explicit overlap patents, but I did not have a live official query route in-session to compute the exact historical weekly intersection series for current CPC assignments through mid-2026. That is why the final forecast is modeled rather than directly counted. (data.uspto.gov)
I interpret the question as counting distinct U.S. utility patents whose official issue date is on one of the seven Tuesday grant dates in the window (June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 14, July 21, or July 28, 2026) and that, at resolution, have at least one current CPC beginning “G16H 50” and at least one current CPC beginning “G06N 3”. The USPTO Official Gazette says patent grants are published weekly on Tuesday. USPTO CPC sources define G16H 50/00 as ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis/simulation/data mining or epidemic/pandemic modeling, and G06N 3/00 as computing arrangements based on biological models, including neural networks. (prod-web-alb-tg.uspto.gov)
The biggest modeling caveat is that resolution uses the USPTO ODP/PatentsView-style current CPC assignments read on August 11, 2026, whereas most evidence I can inspect quickly on the open web is issue-week Official Gazette data. PatentsView’s FAQ says CPC classes in its API are current patent classes, so issue-week classifications are a near-term proxy, not a perfect replica of the resolving database. Over only a few weeks, I expect some but not massive drift. (patentsview.org)
Recent concrete examples show the intersection is active. I found qualifying patents on April 21, 2026 (US 12,609,199), April 28, 2026 (US 12,614,638), May 13, 2025 (US 12,299,564), June 3, 2025 (US 12,321,420; US 12,318,173; US 12,318,172), and June 17, 2025 (US 12,333,443). Each of those snippets shows both a G16H 50/ code and a G06N 3/ code on the same patent. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
Later 2025 examples also exist, including US 12,380,986 on August 5, 2025, US 12,450,284 on October 21, 2025, and US 12,488,288 on December 2, 2025. That makes me confident this is not a one-off cluster but a recurring trickle. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
But the intersection is clearly smaller than the whole medical-AI pool. In one sampled week, the G16 classification page lists 10 patents across G16H 50/20, 50/30, and 50/70 alone; yet a sampled G16H 50/20 patent from that week (US 12,437,870) had G06N 20/00 rather than G06N 3/, so it would not count here. This matters because many modern medical-AI patents are classified under broader machine-learning group G06N 20/00 unless the neural-network aspect is explicit enough to pull in G06N 3/. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
A lower-bound read of the sampled comparable spring/early-summer issue weeks above is roughly 7 qualifying patents across 5 issue weeks, or about 1.4 per week. I then adjust upward for search-engine undercapture and for the fact that current-CPC resolution can sometimes add a qualifying G06N 3/ assignment after issue, but I also adjust downward because a noticeable share of medical AI grants land in G06N 20/ without G06N 3/*. Those pushes roughly offset, leaving me near about 1.8-1.9 qualifying patents per Tuesday issue date. Across 7 Tuesday grant dates, that gives an expected total around 13. (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
Bottom line: my mean/median forecast is about 13 patents. I think outcomes below 10 are still plausible, but the likeliest band is roughly 10-16, and extremely large outcomes are very unlikely over only seven Tuesday issue dates. I encoded that judgment as a negative-binomial distribution with mean 13 and moderate overdispersion. (prod-web-alb-tg.uspto.gov)
The resolving source is USPTO grant data with current CPC assignments. USPTO’s bulk grant products are issued weekly on Tuesdays, and Patent Public Search treats publication/issue date as a searchable field. That means the stated window from June 16, 2026 through July 30, 2026 is effectively a seven-cohort grant window: June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 14, July 21, and July 28, 2026. July 30, 2026 is inside the inclusive window, but it is not itself a normal Tuesday grant date. (data.uspto.gov)
The relevant USPTO/PatentsView data ingredients are exactly the ones named in the question: grant-level patent records and current CPC assignments. Public bulk distributions include grant tables such as g_patent.tsv.zip and current CPC tables such as g_cpc_current.tsv.zip, and ODP also hosts CPC master classification files for U.S. patent grants. (datalumos.org)
For scale, a PatentsView-derived public summary reports 42,899 U.S. utility grants in CPC subclass G16H and 88,089 in CPC subclass G06N over 2015-2025. Those are much broader than the target groups G16H50 and G06N3, but they establish that both parent technology areas are already large grant streams rather than tiny niches. (plainpatent.com)
The target intersection is narrower than either parent class, but it is clearly active. Recent indexed patent pages show multiple U.S. grants carrying both a G16H50 branch and a G06N3 branch, including examples in diagnosis, monitoring/prediction, and medical simulation/modeling contexts. So the right base rate is not “near zero”; it is a recurring, commercially meaningful slice of AI-health patenting. (pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
My forecast uses two bounding views. In a G16H-side view, I start from the broad G16H grant volume, assume a modestly higher 2026 run rate than the 2015-2025 average, then apply a moderate share for the G16H50 branch and a substantial-but-not-majority overlap share for G06N3. In a G06N-side view, I start from the broad G06N grant volume, assume G06N3 remains the dominant branch inside G06N, then apply a small medical/public-health overlap share for G16H50. Both views land in roughly the same neighborhood: about 45 to 75 patents for this seven-Tuesday window. That narrowing step is an inference from the broader observed class sizes, not a direct USPTO count. (plainpatent.com)
I center a little below the middle of that band because the query is quite specific: the same patent must satisfy both current-CPC conditions, and the resolution uses a later dataset read, which adds a bit of classification noise around the boundary. My final point estimate is 58. I model uncertainty with moderate overdispersion rather than a pure Poisson process, to allow for week-to-week grant-batch variation and CPC assignment idiosyncrasies. That gives the highest probability mass in the low-to-mid 50s, with a meaningful tail into the 70s, but little weight below 30 or above 90. (data.uspto.gov)