Where does Avid Technology, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Avid Technology, Inc. ranks #4,933 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 Avid Technology, Inc. hold?

Avid Technology, Inc. holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Avid Technology, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Avid Technology, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Avid Technology, Inc. focus on?

Avid Technology, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 40 patents, ranking #1,165 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

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

Avid Technology, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -11% 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 Avid Technology, Inc.'s patents?

Avid Technology, Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 Avid Technology, 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

Avid Technology, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 23 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, Avid ranks #4,933 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 23 technology areas.

#4,933
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4933 · US Corporation #4,933 · 70 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,933/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AEye
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AEye, Inc. (±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 Avid’s 48.0 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 14.7 pts (31%) Velocity 5.7 pts (12%) Breadth 17.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avid Technology · this assignee

48
Fastree3d · near

48
Primetals Germany · near

48
UNIVERSITÉ Jean… · near

48
Zoho Private · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Avid's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Avid?

Each dot is one of Avid’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). Avid’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Avid's grants concentrate

Avid Technology, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2021. By volume, Avid sits between Yuan MEI Corp. and Closure Systems International Inc..

Avid's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Avid Technology, Inc. moved from 20 to 17 grants (0.85x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Yuan MEI

71
Ypsomed

71
Aeye

70
Alpha Networks

70
Axis Lighting

70
BLU DOT Design &…

70
Chengdu Universit…

70
Closure Systems I…

70
Avid Technology ◀

70

What this shows Avid holds 70 patents at rank #4,933, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Avid

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,933 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Avid, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Avid ranks #1,165 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Primetals Technologies Germany GMBH 48 Zoho Corporation Private Limited 48 UNIVERSITÉ Jean Monnet Saint-etienne 48 Fastree3d SA 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

University of Leeds 17.8 avg University of Saskatchewan 17.8 avg Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique ET DE Microtechnique SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT 17.8 avg Novamont S.p.A. 17.8 avg

Avid's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Avid Technology, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	12.9%
2016	9	12.9%
2017	6	8.6%
2018	5	7.1%
2019	6	8.6%
2020	11	15.7%
2021	3	4.3%
2022	7	10.0%
2023	6	8.6%
2024	4	5.7%
2025partial year	4	5.7%

Which technologies does Avid Technology, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 40

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 29

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 21

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 11

H04H - Broadcast Communication 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

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 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Avid Technology, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,933 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Avid Technology, Inc. against Yuan MEI Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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

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