Where does Activision Publishing, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Activision Publishing, Inc. ranks #1,653 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 Activision Publishing, Inc. hold?

Activision Publishing, Inc. holds 248 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Activision Publishing, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Activision Publishing, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Activision Publishing, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Activision Publishing, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +12% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Activision Publishing, Inc.'s patents?

Activision Publishing, Inc.'s patents average 16.8 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 Activision Publishing, 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

Activision Publishing, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Activision Publishing, Inc. focus on?

Activision Publishing, Inc.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 215 patents, ranking #13 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 248 granted patents across 21 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Activision ranks #1,653 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 248 patents across 21 technology areas.

#1,653
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1653 · US Corporation #1,653 · 248 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 248 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,653/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amadeus S
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amadeus S.A.S. (±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 Activision’s 50.0 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 19.1 pts (38%) Velocity 4.6 pts (9%) Breadth 16.2 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hunter Engineering · near

50
Activision Publishing · this assignee

50
ASOCIACIÓN Centro… · near

50
Harley-Davidson Motor · near

50
Qingdao Haier… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Activision's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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 Activision?

Each dot is one of Activision’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). Activision’s own 16.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Activision's grants concentrate

Activision Publishing, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 86.7% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (37 grants) versus a trough of 13 in 2015. By volume, Activision sits between Seven Networks, LLC and Oregon Health & Science University.

Activision's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Activision Publishing, Inc. moved from 94 to 65 grants (0.69x 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 #2,181. See the growth leaderboard.

Seven Networks

249
Slack

249
Varian Medical Sy…

249
Antecip Bioventur…

248
Amadeus S

248
Chicony Power Tec…

248
Magpul Industries

248
Oregon Health & S…

248
Activision Publis… ◀

248

What this shows Activision holds 248 patents at rank #1,654, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Activision

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,654 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Activision, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), Activision ranks #13 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd. 50 Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc. 50 ASOCIACIÓN Centro DE INVESTIGACIÓN Cooperativa EN Nanociencias “CIC NANOGUNE” 50 Hunter Engineering Company 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Stryker European Operations Limited 16.8 avg DJO, LLC 16.8 avg Ovonyx Memory Technology, LLC 16.8 avg InContact Inc. 16.8 avg

Activision's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Activision Publishing, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	5.2%
2016	26	10.5%
2017	17	6.9%
2018	22	8.9%
2019	34	13.7%
2020	37	14.9%
2021	23	9.3%
2022	24	9.7%
2023	17	6.9%
2024	24	9.7%
2025partial year	11	4.4%

Which technologies does Activision Publishing, Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 215

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 38

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 31

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 17

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 14

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 11

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 10

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 7

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Activision Publishing, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Activision Publishing, Inc.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 86.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #1,653 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Activision Publishing, Inc. against Seven Networks, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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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