Where does Altera Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Altera Corporation ranks #362 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 Altera Corporation hold?

Altera Corporation holds 1,196 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Altera Corporation's Innovation Score?

Altera Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Altera Corporation focus on?

Altera Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 694 patents, ranking #121 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

Is Altera Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Altera Corporation'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 Altera Corporation's patents?

Altera Corporation's patents average 19.6 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 Altera Corporation 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

Altera Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,196 granted patents across 57 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Altera ranks #362 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,196 patents across 57 technology areas.

#362
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.5/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R362 · US Corporation #362 · 1,196 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #362/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The United States…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 57 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (±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 Altera’s 62.5 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 24.5 pts (39%) Velocity 1.3 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essilor International · near

63
Hella & KGaA · near

63
Altera · this assignee

63
ZT Group Int'l · near

63
THE University OF… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Altera's Innovation Score is 62.5/100 (top 2% 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 Altera?

Each dot is one of Altera’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). Altera’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Altera's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Altera Corporation received 106 grants versus 1,042 in 2015–2019 (-90% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 275 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 8. Lead class G06F accounts for 58% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Volvo CAR Corporation (#358) and HRL Laboratories, LLC (#366).

Altera's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Altera Corporation moved from 196 to 38 grants (0.19x 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 #3,099. See the growth leaderboard.

Volvo CAR

1,206
Magna

1,198
The United States…

1,197
X Development

1,197
Altera ◀

1,196
Chevron U

1,194
Canon Medical Sys…

1,191
Cummins

1,191
HRL Laboratories

1,188

What this shows Altera holds 1,196 patents at rank #362, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Altera

By rank, the assignees closest to #362 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Altera, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Altera ranks #121 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

ZT Group Int'l, Inc. 63 THE University OF Chicago 63 Essilor International 63 Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. 19.6 avg Oath Inc. 19.6 avg UAB 360 IT 19.6 avg Netronome Systems, Inc. 19.6 avg

Altera's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Altera Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	275	23.0%
2016	258	21.6%
2017	240	20.1%
2018	141	11.8%
2019	128	10.7%
2020	45	3.8%
2021	23	1.9%
2022	13	1.1%
2023	8	0.7%
2024	17	1.4%
2025partial year	48	4.0%

Which technologies does Altera Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 694

H03K - Pulse Technique 323

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 206

G11C - Static Stores 148

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 148

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 73

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 70

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 63

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 57

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 51

H04B - Transmission 38

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 20

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 17

Top 15 of 57 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

Altera Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Altera Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 58% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #362 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Altera Corporation against Volvo CAR Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.5/100 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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