Where does Affectiva, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Affectiva, Inc. ranks #5,422 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 Affectiva, Inc. hold?

Affectiva, Inc. holds 63 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Affectiva, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Affectiva, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.6 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Affectiva, Inc. focus on?

Affectiva, Inc.'s top technology area is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding) with 50 patents, ranking #230 of 5,108 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

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

Affectiva, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +105% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Affectiva, Inc.'s patents average 27.2 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 Affectiva, 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

Affectiva, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 63 granted patents across 24 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: G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Affectiva ranks #5,422 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 63 patents across 24 technology areas.

#5,422
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.6/100): 27.2
avg claims per patent: +105%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5422 · US Corporation #5,422 · 63 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 63 grants
UPPER-Q #5,422/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AbbVie Biotechnology
CPC-FOCUS G06V · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +105% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AbbVie Biotechnology 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 Affectiva’s 51.6 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 14.4 pts (28%) Velocity 4.9 pts (9%) Breadth 17.3 pts (34%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exelis · near

52
Affectiva · this assignee

52
FrieslandCampina… · near

52
Korea Institute OF… · near

52
SubCom · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Affectiva's Innovation Score is 51.6/100 (top 11% 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 Affectiva?

Each dot is one of Affectiva’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). Affectiva’s own 27.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Affectiva's grants concentrate

Affectiva, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 79.4% of grants classified under G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Affectiva sits between Asia Optical International Ltd. and Baldwin Filters, Inc..

Affectiva's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Affectiva, Inc. moved from 27 to 20 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Asia Optical Inte…

63
Atlantic Inertial…

63
Abbvie Biotechnol…

63
Advanced Drainage…

63
Agfa-gevaert

63
Ansell

63
BGI Shenzhen

63
Baldwin Filters

63
Affectiva ◀

63

What this shows Affectiva holds 63 patents at rank #5,425, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Affectiva

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,425 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Affectiva, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding), Affectiva ranks #230 of 5,108 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology 52 SubCom, LLC 52 FrieslandCampina Nederland B.V. 52 Exelis Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (27.2 here).

Ecosense Lighting Inc. 27.2 avg Genmab A/S 27.1 avg Sunrise Memory Corporation 27.4 avg Semmle Limited 27.4 avg

Affectiva's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Affectiva, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.8%
2016	2	3.2%
2017	3	4.8%
2018	6	9.5%
2019	6	9.5%
2020	12	19.0%
2021	9	14.3%
2022	10	15.9%
2023	6	9.5%
2024	4	6.3%
2025partial year	2	3.2%

Which technologies does Affectiva, Inc. patent most?

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 50

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 43

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 33

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 31

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 29

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 20

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 19

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 18

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

Top 15 of 24 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

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

Affectiva, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06V (Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding), 79.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06V
Ranked #5,422 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Affectiva, Inc. against Asia Optical International Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.6/100 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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