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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CA, Inc. ranks #417 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 CA, Inc. hold?

CA, Inc. holds 1,081 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is CA, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

CA, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CA, Inc. focus on?

CA, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 766 patents, ranking #110 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

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

CA, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -80% 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 CA, Inc.'s patents?

CA, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 CA, 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

CA, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,081 granted patents across 49 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, CA ranks #417 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,081 patents across 49 technology areas.

#417
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R417 · US Corporation #417 · 1,081 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #417/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Regents of the…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 49 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Regents of the University of Minnesota (±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 CA’s 61.2 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 24.1 pts (39%) Velocity 0.6 pts (1%) Breadth 24.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CA · this assignee

61
ZF Passive Safety… · near

61
Chongqing BOE… · near

61
CureVac SE · near

61
Trumpf Werkzeugmasch… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows CA's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 CA?

Each dot is one of CA’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). CA’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where CA's grants concentrate

CA, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 70.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (207 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, CA sits between Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Screen Holdings Co., Ltd..

CA's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, CA, Inc. moved from 326 to 30 grants (0.09x 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 #3,184. See the growth leaderboard.

Bristol-myers Squ…

1,089
Yangtze Memory

1,087
The Trustees of C…

1,086
University of Sou…

1,086
Regents of the Un…

1,081
CA ◀

1,081
Rohde & Schwarz &…

1,078
Fisher & Paykel H…

1,077
Screen Holdings

1,077

What this shows CA holds 1,081 patents at rank #417, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CA

By rank, the assignees closest to #417 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), CA ranks #110 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

ZF Passive Safety Systems, US Inc. 61 Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 61 CureVac SE 61 Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen SE + Co. KG 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Silicon Laboratories Inc. 19.4 avg III Holdings 12, LLC 19.4 avg ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC 19.4 avg Siemens Healthineers International AG 19.4 avg

CA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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

CA, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	137	12.7%
2016	184	17.0%
2017	207	19.1%
2018	194	17.9%
2019	177	16.4%
2020	103	9.5%
2021	46	4.3%
2022	22	2.0%
2023	5	0.5%
2024	3	0.3%
2025partial year	3	0.3%

Which technologies does CA, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 766

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 502

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 114

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 85

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 38

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 17

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 16

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 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 8

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 8

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 5

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

CA, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 70.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #417 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CA, Inc. against Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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.