Where does Bytedance Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bytedance Inc. ranks #396 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 Bytedance Inc. hold?

Bytedance Inc. holds 1,130 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Bytedance Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bytedance Inc. has an Innovation Score of 72.0 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 Bytedance Inc. focus on?

Bytedance Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 792 patents, ranking #41 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Bytedance Inc..

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

Bytedance Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 Bytedance 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

Bytedance Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,130 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bytedance ranks #396 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,130 patents across 21 technology areas.

#396
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (72.0/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R396 · US Corporation #396 · 1,130 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #396/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Molex
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 21 areas
INNOV-STRONG 72.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Molex, LLC (±2 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 Bytedance’s 72.0 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 24.3 pts (34%) Velocity 20.0 pts (28%) Breadth 16.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
STMicroelectronics · near

72
Bytedance · this assignee

72
Infineon · near

72
Western Digital · near

72
Panasonic Automotive… · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bytedance's Innovation Score is 72.0/100 (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 Bytedance?

Each dot is one of Bytedance’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). Bytedance’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bytedance's grants concentrate

Bytedance Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 70.1% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (334 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2020. By volume, Bytedance sits between Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Bytedance's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bytedance Inc. moved from 91 to 833 grants (9.15x 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 #11. See the growth leaderboard.

Taiyo Yuden

1,135
Orange

1,134
Molex

1,132
Toshiba Medical S…

1,132
Bytedance ◀

1,130
Cree

1,127
Cornell University

1,126
BSH Hausgeräte

1,122
Regeneron Pharmac…

1,117

What this shows Bytedance holds 1,130 patents at rank #396, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bytedance

By rank, the assignees closest to #396 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bytedance, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Bytedance ranks #41 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 72 Infineon Technologies AG 72 Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. 72 STMicroelectronics SA 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Viavi Solutions Inc. 19.1 avg Rockley Photonics Limited 19.1 avg Ceraloc Innovation AB 19.1 avg Anthony, Inc. 19.1 avg

Bytedance's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Bytedance Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	4	0.4%
2021	87	7.7%
2022	207	18.3%
2023	292	25.8%
2024	334	29.6%
2025partial year	206	18.2%

Which technologies does Bytedance Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 792

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 66

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 61

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 32

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 28

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 6

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 5

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 4

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

Top 15 of 21 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

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

Bytedance Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 70.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #396 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bytedance Inc. against Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 72.0/100 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.