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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ambarella, Inc. ranks #3,191 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 Ambarella, Inc. hold?

Ambarella, Inc. holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Ambarella, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ambarella, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ambarella, Inc. focus on?

Ambarella, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 76 patents, ranking #254 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

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

Ambarella, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -96% 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 Ambarella, Inc.'s patents?

Ambarella, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Ambarella, 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

Ambarella, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ambarella ranks #3,191 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 28 technology areas.

#3,191
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -96%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3191 · US Corporation #3,191 · 117 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,191/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH B G Negev AND…
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -96% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: B. G. Negev Technologies AND Applications Ltd., AT Ben-gurion University (±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 Ambarella’s 46.5 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 16.5 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 18.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ambarella · this assignee

47
Blueair AB · near

47
Genmab A/S · near

47
Nasdaq Technology AB · near

47
Toshiba Lighting &… · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ambarella's Innovation Score is 46.5/100 (top 20% 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 Ambarella?

Each dot is one of Ambarella’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). Ambarella’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ambarella's grants concentrate

Ambarella, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 65% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (42 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2020. By volume, Ambarella sits between The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. and EM Microelectronic-Marin SA.

The Medical Colle…

118
The University of…

118
Universite DE Nan…

118
Voxx International

118
B G Negev AND App…

117
Daido Metal

117
Digilens

117
EM Microelectroni…

117
Ambarella ◀

117

What this shows Ambarella holds 117 patents at rank #3,191, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ambarella

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,191 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ambarella, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Ambarella ranks #254 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Nasdaq Technology AB 47 Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation 47 Genmab A/S 47 Blueair AB 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

TE Connectivity Services GMBH 18.9 avg Wake Forest University Health Sciences 18.9 avg Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 18.9 avg Crown Equipment Corporation 18.9 avg

Ambarella's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

View data table

Ambarella, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	7.7%
2016	20	17.1%
2017	14	12.0%
2018	27	23.1%
2019	42	35.9%
2020	5	4.3%

Which technologies does Ambarella, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 76

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 41

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 30

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

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

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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 2

Top 15 of 28 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

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

Ambarella, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 65% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #3,191 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ambarella, Inc. against The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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

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.