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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cloudera, Inc. ranks #4,662 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 Cloudera, Inc. hold?

Cloudera, Inc. holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Cloudera, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cloudera, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.3 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cloudera, Inc. focus on?

Cloudera, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 73 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

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

Cloudera, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +16% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Cloudera, Inc.'s patents average 22.1 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 Cloudera, 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

Cloudera, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 5 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, Cloudera ranks #4,662 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 5 technology areas.

#4,662
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.3/100): 22.1
avg claims per patent: +16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4662 · US Corporation #4,662 · 75 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,662/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ball Aerospace &
CPC-NARROW G06F · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (±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
Avigilon Fortress · near

40
Cloudera · this assignee

40
InterMetro Industries · near

40
Korea Institute OF… · near

40
Wapp Tech · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cloudera's Innovation Score is 40.3/100 (top 36% 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.

Where Cloudera's grants concentrate

Cloudera, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 97.3% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Cloudera sits between BEN Gurion University OF THE Negev Research AND Development Authority and Grass GmbH.

Cloudera's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cloudera, Inc. moved from 26 to 16 grants (0.61x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

BEN Gurion Univer…

75
Ball Aerospace &

75
Becton Dickinson…

75
CAE

75
Crystal IS

75
DE LA RUE Interna…

75
Federal Home Loan…

75
Grass

75
Cloudera ◀

75

What this shows Cloudera holds 75 patents at rank #4,662, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cloudera

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,662 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Avigilon Fortress Corporation 40 InterMetro Industries Corporation 40 Korea Institute OF Oriental Medicine 40 Wapp Tech Corp. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.1 here).

Trimble Navigation Limited 22.1 avg Silanna UV Technologies Pte Ltd 22.1 avg STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 22.2 avg Insurance Services Office, Inc. 22.1 avg

Cloudera's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Cloudera, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	6.7%
2016	6	8.0%
2017	10	13.3%
2018	6	8.0%
2019	5	6.7%
2020	10	13.3%
2021	11	14.7%
2022	3	4.0%
2023	9	12.0%
2024	4	5.3%
2025partial year	6	8.0%

Which technologies does Cloudera, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 73

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

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 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,662

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

40.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Cloudera, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 97.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,662 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cloudera, Inc. against BEN Gurion University OF THE Negev Research AND Development Authority, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.3/100 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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