Where does Adobe Systems Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Adobe Systems Incorporated ranks #300 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 Systems Incorporated hold?

Adobe Systems Incorporated holds 1,429 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Adobe Systems Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Adobe Systems Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 61.5 out of 100 (top 3% 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 Systems Incorporated focus on?

Adobe Systems Incorporated's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 855 patents. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

Is Adobe Systems Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Adobe Systems Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Adobe Systems Incorporated's patents?

Adobe Systems Incorporated's patents average 19.5 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 Systems Incorporated 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 Systems Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,429 granted patents across 49 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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, Adobe ranks #300 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,429 patents across 49 technology areas.

#300
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.5/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R300 · US Corporation #300 · 1,429 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #300/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tata Consultancy…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 49 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tata Consultancy Services Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FCA US · near

62
Mitsubishi Gas… · near

62
Adobe Systems… · this assignee

62
Continental Automotive · near

62
The Governing… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Adobe's Innovation Score is 61.5/100 (top 3% 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.

Where Adobe's grants concentrate

Adobe Systems Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 59.8% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (356 grants) versus a trough of 48 in 2019. By volume, Adobe sits between JFE Steel Corporation and The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd..

JFE Steel

1,443
Freeescale Semico…

1,437
Jtekt

1,431
Advanced New

1,430
Tata Consultancy…

1,429
Adobe Systems Inc… ◀

1,429
Motorola Mobility

1,427
Beijing BOE Displ…

1,414
The Yokohama Rubb…

1,405

What this shows Adobe holds 1,429 patents at rank #300, 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 #300 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Continental Automotive GMBH 62 The Governing Council of the University of Toronto 62 FCA US LLC. 62 Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Asml Netherlands B.V. 19.5 avg Juniper Networks, Inc. 19.5 avg Equinix, Inc. 19.5 avg People.ai, Inc. 19.5 avg

Adobe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Adobe Systems Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	339	23.7%
2016	356	24.9%
2017	341	23.9%
2018	345	24.1%
2019	48	3.4%

Which technologies does Adobe Systems Incorporated patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 855

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 423

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 285

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 224

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 187

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 166

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 75

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 62

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 42

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 36

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 26

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 13

H04M - Telephonic Communication 13

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 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 10

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#300

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Adobe Systems Incorporated's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 59.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #300 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Adobe Systems Incorporated against JFE Steel Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.5/100 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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