Where does Adobe Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Adobe Inc. ranks #126 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 Adobe Inc. hold?

Adobe Inc. holds 3,022 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Adobe Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Adobe Inc. has an Innovation Score of 70.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Adobe Inc. focus on?

Adobe Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,798 patents, ranking #42 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is Adobe Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Adobe Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +421% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Adobe Inc.'s patents?

Adobe 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 Adobe 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

Adobe Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,022 granted patents across 56 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Adobe ranks #126 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,022 patents across 56 technology areas.

#126
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.3/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +421%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R126 · US Corporation #126 · 3,022 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #126/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Industrial Technolog…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 56 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +421% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Industrial Technology Research Institute (±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 Adobe’s 70.3 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 27.7 pts (39%) Velocity 6.1 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GD Midea Air-conditi… · near

70
Adobe · this assignee

70
Magna Mirrors of… · near

70
Kawasaki Motors · near

70
Mercedes-Benz Group · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Adobe's Innovation Score is 70.3/100 (top 1% 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 Adobe?

Each dot is one of Adobe’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). Adobe’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Adobe's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Adobe Inc. received 2,294 grants versus 440 in 2015–2019 (+421% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 498 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 407. Lead class G06F accounts for 59.5% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mediatek Inc. (#122) and Juniper Networks, Inc. (#130).

Adobe's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Adobe Inc. moved from 1,428 to 1,306 grants (0.92x 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 #1,427. See the growth leaderboard.

Mediatek

3,036
Pioneer Hi-bred I…

3,033
Centre National D…

3,025
Industrial Techno…

3,023
Adobe ◀

3,022
DOW Global

3,004
Toshiba Memory

2,972
TDK

2,914
Juniper Networks

2,902

What this shows Adobe holds 3,022 patents at rank #126, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Adobe

By rank, the assignees closest to #126 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Adobe, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Adobe ranks #42 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Magna Mirrors of America, Inc. 70 Mercedes-Benz Group AG 70 Kawasaki Motors, Ltd. 70 GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. 70

Similar claim depth

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

Sophos Limited 19.3 avg Ambarella International LP 19.3 avg The Travelers Indemnity Company 19.3 avg Interrad Medical, Inc. 19.3 avg

Adobe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Adobe Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	440	14.6%
2020	498	16.5%
2021	490	16.2%
2022	421	13.9%
2023	478	15.8%
2024	407	13.5%
2025partial year	288	9.5%

Which technologies does Adobe Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,798

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1,292

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 989

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 781

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 432

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 294

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 258

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 117

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 105

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 40

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 32

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 16

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 12

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 12

H04M - Telephonic Communication 11

Top 15 of 56 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Adobe Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Adobe Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 59.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #126 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Adobe Inc. against Mediatek Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.3/100 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.