Where does Ancestry.com Operations Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ancestry.com Operations Inc. ranks #5,140 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 Ancestry.com Operations Inc. hold?

Ancestry.com Operations Inc. holds 67 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ancestry.com Operations Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ancestry.com Operations Inc. focus on?

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 61 patents, ranking #809 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s patents?

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s patents average 18.5 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 Ancestry.com Operations 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

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 67 granted patents across 11 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, Ancestry.com ranks #5,140 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 67 patents across 11 technology areas.

#5,140
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5140 · US Corporation #5,140 · 67 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 67 grants
UPPER-Q #5,140/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adient US
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adient US LLC (±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 Ancestry.com’s 51.3 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 14.6 pts (28%) Velocity 13.9 pts (27%) Breadth 11.7 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Ancestry com… · this assignee

51
Appleton GRP · near

51
Indium · near

51
Persimmon · near

51
Hill's Pet Nutrition · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ancestry.com's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Ancestry.com?

Each dot is one of Ancestry.com’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). Ancestry.com’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ancestry.com's grants concentrate

Ancestry.com Operations Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 91% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Ancestry.com sits between Amgen Research (MUNICH) GMBH and Cambridge Mechatronics Limited.

Ancestry.com's three-year grant acceleration

Ancestry.com Operations Inc. shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Amgen Research (M…

67
Amini Innovation

67
Areva NP

67
Adient US

67
Arevo

67
Aviatrix Systems

67
Beken

67
Cambridge Mechatr…

67
Ancestry com Oper… ◀

67

What this shows Ancestry.com holds 67 patents at rank #5,141, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ancestrycom

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,141 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ancestrycom, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Ancestrycom ranks #809 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Appleton GRP LLC 51 Persimmon Technologies Corporation 51 Indium Corporation 51 Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

CAE Inc. 18.5 avg SiLC Technologies, Inc. 18.5 avg Medicaroid Corporation 18.5 avg CareFusion 2200, Inc. 18.5 avg

Ancestry.com's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Ancestry.com Operations Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	9.0%
2016	4	6.0%
2017	7	10.4%
2018	1	1.5%
2019	2	3.0%
2020	4	6.0%
2021	6	9.0%
2022	7	10.4%
2023	8	11.9%
2024	10	14.9%
2025partial year	12	17.9%

Which technologies does Ancestry.com Operations Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 61

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 32

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 26

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 10

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 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 91% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #5,140 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ancestry.com Operations Inc. against Amgen Research (MUNICH) GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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

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