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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Coursera, Inc. ranks #14,544 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 Coursera, Inc. hold?

Coursera, Inc. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Coursera, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Coursera, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.7 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Coursera, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +22% 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 Coursera, Inc.'s patents?

Coursera, Inc.'s patents average 18.1 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 Coursera, 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

Coursera, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Coursera, Inc. focus on?

Coursera, Inc.'s top technology area is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams) with 14 patents, ranking #54 of 1,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Coursera ranks #14,544 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 9 technology areas.

#14,544
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.7/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14544 · US Corporation #14,544 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,544/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cloud Linux Software
CPC-NARROW G09B · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cloud Linux Software 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.

How Coursera’s 34.7 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 10.5 pts (30%) Velocity 2.8 pts (8%) Breadth 10.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Coursera · this assignee

35
Mie Fujitsu… · near

35
Systems Machines… · near

35
Acadia Pharmaceuticals · near

35
Mojix · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Coursera's Innovation Score is 34.7/100 (49th percentile 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 Coursera?

Each dot is one of Coursera’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). Coursera’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Coursera's grants concentrate

Coursera, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Coursera sits between Cloud Linux Software Inc. and D.E Shaw Research, LLC..

Coursera's three-year grant acceleration

Coursera, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Cloud Linux Softw…

20
Consumer 2 0

20
Consumerdirect

20
Coroplast Fritz M…

20
Crane

20
Cryostar SAS

20
D-line (Europe)

20
D E Shaw Research

20
Coursera ◀

20

What this shows Coursera holds 20 patents at rank #14,550, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Coursera

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,550 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09B (Educational OR Demonstration Appliances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Coursera, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G09B (Educational OR Demonstration Appliances), Coursera ranks #54 of 1,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Systems, Machines, Automation Components Corporation 35 Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited 35 Mojix, Inc. 35 Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. 35

Coursera's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Coursera, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.0%
2017	2	10.0%
2019	6	30.0%
2020	4	20.0%
2021	2	10.0%
2022	3	15.0%
2023	1	5.0%
2024	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Coursera, Inc. patent most?

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 14

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 13

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

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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Coursera, Inc.'s lead technology class is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09B
Ranked #14,544 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Coursera, Inc. against Cloud Linux Software Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.7/100 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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