Where does CDW Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CDW Llc ranks #7,247 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does CDW Llc hold?

CDW Llc holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is CDW Llc's Innovation Score?

CDW Llc has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CDW Llc focus on?

CDW Llc's top technology area is G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING) with 25 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is CDW Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CDW Llc's recent grant velocity is +1500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for CDW Llc's patents?

CDW Llc'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 CDW Llc 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

CDW Llc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, CDW ranks #7,247 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 12 technology areas.

#7,247
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +1500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7247 · US Corporation #7,247 · 45 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,247/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH BioCryst Pharmaceuti…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CDW · this assignee

57
H b Fuller · near

57
LNW Gaming · near

57
Praxair S t Technology · near

57
Sumitomo Metal Mining · near

57
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows CDW Llc stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #7,247 of 50,000; Innovation Score 57.2/100 sits in the top 5% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

CDW Llc has been granted 45 US utility patents between 2018 and 2025, placing CDW Llc at #7,247 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 12 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 19.5 claims per patent with primary concentration in G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING). As a US Corporation, CDW Llc is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, CDW sits between Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (45 patents, rank #7,243) and Corsair Memory, Inc. (45 patents, rank #7,251) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 57.2/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 32 grants, compared with 2 in the 2015–2019 window, a +1500% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. CDW Llc's 19.5 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 12 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Biocryst Pharmace…

45
Bloomberg Finance

45
Blue Evolution

45
California Expand…

45
Cetres Holdings

45
CharitÉ—Universit…

45
Constellium Issoi…

45
Corsair Memory

45
CDW ◀

45

What this shows CDW holds 45 patents at rank #7,247, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CDW

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,247 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital DATA Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CDW, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

H.b. Fuller Company 57 Praxair S.t. Technology, Inc. 57 LNW Gaming, Inc. 57 Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. 57

CDW's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

CDW Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	4.4%
2020	2	4.4%
2021	4	8.9%
2022	13	28.9%
2023	6	13.3%
2024	7	15.6%
2025partial year	11	24.4%

Which technologies does CDW Llc patent most?

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 25

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 23

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 20

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 16

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 15

G08G - TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS 13

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 11

G10L - SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING 8

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 3

H04M - TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION 2

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 2

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 2

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,247

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

57.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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