Where does Cadence Design Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cadence Design Systems, Inc. ranks #388 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 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. hold?

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. holds 1,138 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 62.8 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cadence Design Systems, Inc. focus on?

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 962 patents, ranking #81 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s patents average 19.5 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 Cadence Design Systems, 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

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,138 granted patents across 44 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, Cadence ranks #388 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,138 patents across 44 technology areas.

#388
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.8/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R388 · US Corporation #388 · 1,138 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #388/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aisin Seiki
CPC-WIDE G06F · 44 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 Cadence’s 62.8 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 24.3 pts (39%) Velocity 3.4 pts (5%) Breadth 23.5 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cadence Design Systems · this assignee

63
DoorDash · near

63
Maxim Integrated… · near

63
Waters · near

63
Renault S · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cadence's Innovation Score is 62.8/100 (top 2% 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 Cadence?

Each dot is one of Cadence’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). Cadence’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cadence's grants concentrate

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 84.5% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (193 grants) versus a trough of 63 in 2024. By volume, Cadence sits between Jvckenwood Corporation and Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd..

Cadence's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. moved from 443 to 225 grants (0.51x 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 #2,677. See the growth leaderboard.

Jvckenwood

1,148
Hitachi Astemo

1,145
Osram Opto Semico…

1,141
Northrop Grumman…

1,140
Cadence Design Sy… ◀

1,138
Aisin Seiki

1,137
Korea Institute O…

1,136
Kimberly-clark Wo…

1,135
Taiyo Yuden

1,135

What this shows Cadence holds 1,138 patents at rank #388, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cadence

By rank, the assignees closest to #388 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cadence, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Cadence ranks #81 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. 63 Waters Technologies Corporation 63 DoorDash, Inc. 63 Renault S.A.S. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. 19.5 avg Afton Chemical Corporation 19.5 avg Rehrig Pacific Company 19.5 avg Cohere Technologies, Inc. 19.5 avg

Cadence's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	138	12.1%
2016	88	7.7%
2017	99	8.7%
2018	100	8.8%
2019	193	17.0%
2020	148	13.0%
2021	102	9.0%
2022	90	7.9%
2023	72	6.3%
2024	63	5.5%
2025partial year	45	4.0%

Which technologies does Cadence Design Systems, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 962

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 86

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 83

G11C - Static Stores 70

H03K - Pulse Technique 62

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 53

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 30

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 28

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 23

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 19

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

H04B - Transmission 13

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 12

H03F - Amplifiers 11

Top 15 of 44 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

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 84.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #388 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cadence Design Systems, Inc. against Jvckenwood Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.8/100 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

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