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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Autodesk, Inc. ranks #636 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 Autodesk, Inc. hold?

Autodesk, Inc. holds 700 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 76 technology areas.

What is Autodesk, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Autodesk, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.8 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 Autodesk, Inc. focus on?

Autodesk, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 456 patents, ranking #163 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 76 CPC subclasses total.

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

Autodesk, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +15% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Autodesk, Inc.'s patents average 20.6 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 Autodesk, 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

Autodesk, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 700 granted patents across 76 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Autodesk ranks #636 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 700 patents across 76 technology areas.

#636
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.8/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: +15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R636 · US Corporation #636 · 700 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 700 grants
TOP-DECILE #636/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Square
CPC-WIDE G06F · 76 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Inc Square, Co., Ltd (±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 Autodesk’s 65.8 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 22.6 pts (34%) Velocity 5.8 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nissan North America · near

66
Autodesk · this assignee

66
Facebook · near

66
Maplebear · near

66
Rolls-royce · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Autodesk's Innovation Score is 65.8/100 (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 Autodesk?

Each dot is one of Autodesk’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). Autodesk’s own 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Autodesk's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Autodesk, Inc. received 352 grants versus 307 in 2015–2019 (+15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 85 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 47. Lead class G06F accounts for 65.1% of the portfolio across 76 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (#632) and Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (#640).

Autodesk's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Autodesk, Inc. moved from 228 to 200 grants (0.88x 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 #1,569. See the growth leaderboard.

Toppan Printing

704
Rakuten Group

703
Alarm com Incorpo…

702
Osaka University

702
Autodesk ◀

700
Square

699
Lite-on Technology

699
Rutgers the State…

698
Arizona Board of…

696

What this shows Autodesk holds 700 patents at rank #636, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Autodesk

By rank, the assignees closest to #636 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Autodesk, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Autodesk ranks #163 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Rolls-royce plc 66 Facebook, Inc. 66 Maplebear Inc. 66 Nissan North America, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.6 here).

Align Technology, Inc. 20.6 avg Gracenote, Inc. 20.6 avg Intel IP Corporation 20.6 avg DeepMind Technologies Limited 20.6 avg

Autodesk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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.

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Autodesk, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	59	8.4%
2016	47	6.7%
2017	61	8.7%
2018	64	9.1%
2019	76	10.9%
2020	85	12.1%
2021	67	9.6%
2022	66	9.4%
2023	68	9.7%
2024	66	9.4%
2025partial year	41	5.9%

Which technologies does Autodesk, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 456

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 291

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 115

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 96

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 91

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 77

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 68

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 67

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 42

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 33

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 28

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 16

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 13

Top 15 of 76 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

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

Autodesk, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 65.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #636 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Autodesk, Inc. against Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.8/100 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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