Where does A9.com, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), A9.com, Inc. ranks #1,051 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does A9.com, Inc. hold?

A9.com, Inc. holds 411 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is A9.com, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

A9.com, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does A9.com, Inc. focus on?

A9.com, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 260 patents, ranking #249 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

Is A9.com, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

A9.com, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -45% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for A9.com, Inc.'s patents?

A9.com, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the A9.com, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

A9.com, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 411 granted patents across 49 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, A9.com ranks #1,051 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 411 patents across 49 technology areas.

#1,051
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1051 · US Corporation #1,051 · 411 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 411 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,051/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asahi Glass
CPC-WIDE G06F · 49 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How A9.com’s 59.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 20.8 pts (35%) Velocity 1.9 pts (3%) Breadth 24.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A9 com · this assignee

59
BOE Mled Technology · near

59
Gracenote · near

59
Microjet Technology · near

59
Sulzer Management · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows A9.com's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for A9.com?

Each dot is one of A9.com’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). A9.com’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

A9.com vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where A9.com's grants concentrate

A9.com, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 63.3% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (67 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2024. By volume, A9.com sits between Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. and The Broad Institute, Inc..

A9.com's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, A9.com, Inc. moved from 162 to 46 grants (0.28x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,013. See the growth leaderboard.

Florida State Uni…

413
Siemens Mobility

413
Andreas Stihl & KG

412
Japan Tobacco

412
Asahi Glass

411
Gigaphoton

411
A9 com ◀

411
Seoul Semiconduct…

410
The Broad Institu…

410

What this shows A9.com holds 411 patents at rank #1,051, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near A9com

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,051 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in A9com's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for A9com, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), A9com ranks #249 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Gracenote, Inc. 59 Microjet Technology Co., Ltd. 59 Sulzer Management AG 59 BOE Mled Technology Co., Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Netgear, Inc. 19.3 avg GSI Technology Inc. 19.3 avg Oxilio Ltd 19.3 avg Musarubra US LLC 19.3 avg

A9.com's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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A9.com, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	8.3%
2016	44	10.7%
2017	54	13.1%
2018	67	16.3%
2019	64	15.6%
2020	56	13.6%
2021	42	10.2%
2022	25	6.1%
2023	11	2.7%
2024	10	2.4%
2025partial year	4	1.0%

Which technologies does A9.com, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 260

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 140

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 138

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 116

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 55

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 48

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 36

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 28

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 17

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 15

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 13

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 12

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 11

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 11

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 10

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

A9.com, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

A9.com, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 63.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,051 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare A9.com, Inc. against Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.