Where does Arm Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arm Limited ranks #146 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 Arm Limited hold?

Arm Limited holds 2,613 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 107 technology areas.

What is Arm Limited's Innovation Score?

Arm Limited has an Innovation Score of 68.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Arm Limited focus on?

Arm Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,785 patents, ranking #43 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 107 CPC subclasses total.

Is Arm Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arm Limited's recent grant velocity is +65% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Arm Limited's patents?

Arm Limited's patents average 18.2 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 Arm Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Arm Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,613 granted patents across 107 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, Arm ranks #146 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,613 patents across 107 technology areas.

#146
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.0/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R146 · Foreign Corporation #146 · 2,613 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #146/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Paypal
CPC-WIDE G06F · 107 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Paypal, Inc. (±4 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 Arm’s 68.0 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 27.2 pts (40%) Velocity 4.9 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basf SE · near

68
Arm · this assignee

68
Universal Display · near

68
Altria Client Services · near

68
Rohm · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arm's Innovation Score is 68.0/100 (top 1% 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 Arm?

Each dot is one of Arm’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). Arm’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Arm's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Arm Limited received 1,527 grants versus 923 in 2015–2019 (+65% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 403 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 116. Lead class G06F accounts for 68.3% of the portfolio across 107 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. (#142) and Omron Corporation (#150).

Arm's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Arm Limited moved from 1,047 to 772 grants (0.74x 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 #2,030. See the growth leaderboard.

Fuji Electric

2,654
Asml Netherlands…

2,645
Airbus Operations

2,643
Kioxia

2,641
Arm ◀

2,613
Paypal

2,609
Red Hat

2,585
Semiconductor Com…

2,555
Omron

2,552

What this shows Arm holds 2,613 patents at rank #146, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arm

By rank, the assignees closest to #146 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Arm, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Arm ranks #43 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Universal Display Corporation 68 Basf SE 68 Rohm Co., Ltd. 68 Altria Client Services LLC 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Cummins Filtration IP, Inc. 18.2 avg Unify GmbH & Co. KG 18.2 avg Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc. 18.2 avg Sequenom, Inc. 18.2 avg

Arm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

Arm Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	135	5.2%
2016	116	4.4%
2017	173	6.6%
2018	207	7.9%
2019	292	11.2%
2020	403	15.4%
2021	352	13.5%
2022	311	11.9%
2023	225	8.6%
2024	236	9.0%
2025partial year	163	6.2%

Which technologies does Arm Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,785

G11C - Static Stores 350

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 324

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 209

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 147

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 135

H03K - Pulse Technique 127

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 87

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 68

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 67

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 61

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 61

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 57

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 54

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 51

Top 15 of 107 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Arm Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arm Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 68.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #146 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arm Limited against Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.0/100 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.