Where does Accenture Global Services Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Accenture Global Services Limited ranks #681 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 Accenture Global Services Limited hold?

Accenture Global Services Limited holds 660 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is Accenture Global Services Limited's Innovation Score?

Accenture Global Services Limited has an Innovation Score of 60.0 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 Accenture Global Services Limited focus on?

Accenture Global Services Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 373 patents, ranking #190 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

Is Accenture Global Services Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Accenture Global Services Limited's recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Accenture Global Services Limited's patents?

Accenture Global Services Limited's patents average 20.2 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 Accenture Global Services Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Accenture Global Services Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 660 granted patents across 64 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Accenture ranks #681 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 660 patents across 64 technology areas.

#681
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (60.0/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R681 · Foreign Corporation #681 · 660 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 660 grants
TOP-DECILE #681/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Datang Mobile…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 64 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. (±1 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 Accenture’s 60.0 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 22.4 pts (37%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Accenture Global… · this assignee

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Oregon State… · near

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Accenture's Innovation Score is 60.0/100 (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 Accenture?

Each dot is one of Accenture’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). Accenture’s own 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Accenture's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Accenture Global Services Limited received 60 grants versus 600 in 2015–2019 (-90% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 144 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class G06F accounts for 56.5% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Groupon, Inc. (#677) and Inventec Corporation (#685).

Accenture's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Accenture Global Services Limited moved from 131 to 9 grants (0.07x 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 #3,212. See the growth leaderboard.

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Datang Mobile Com…

661
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Accenture Global… ◀

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Pfizer

659
Tyco Fire & Secur…

659
Borealis

657
Inventec

656

What this shows Accenture holds 660 patents at rank #681, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Accenture

By rank, the assignees closest to #681 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Accenture, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Accenture ranks #190 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

University of Kentucky Research Foundation 60 Canoo Technologies Inc. 60 Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc. 60 Oregon State University 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.2 here).

Intellectual Ventures II LLC 20.2 avg Oncomed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 20.2 avg Sony Network Entertainment International LLC 20.2 avg Mobile Technology Corporation 20.2 avg

Accenture's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 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 · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

View data table

Accenture Global Services Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	115	17.4%
2016	144	21.8%
2017	131	19.8%
2018	130	19.7%
2019	80	12.1%
2020	35	5.3%
2021	16	2.4%
2022	8	1.2%
2023	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Accenture Global Services Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 373

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 248

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 216

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 65

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 51

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 42

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 33

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 28

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 25

H04M - Telephonic Communication 23

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 22

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 20

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 19

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 14

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 13

Top 15 of 64 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Accenture Global Services Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Accenture Global Services Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 56.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #681 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Accenture Global Services Limited against Groupon, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.0/100 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

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