Where does Dell Products L.P. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dell Products L.P. ranks #32 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 Dell Products L.P. hold?

Dell Products L.P. holds 10,222 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 192 technology areas.

What is Dell Products L.P.'s Innovation Score?

Dell Products L.P. has an Innovation Score of 78.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dell Products L.P. focus on?

Dell Products L.P.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 7,187 patents, ranking #8 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 192 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dell Products L.P.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dell Products L.P.'s recent grant velocity is +91% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dell Products L.P.'s patents?

Dell Products L.P.'s patents average 17.9 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 Dell Products L.P. 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

Dell Products L.P.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10,222 granted patents across 192 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, Dell ranks #32 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10,222 patents across 192 technology areas.

#32
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.6/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32 · US Corporation #32 · 10,222 grants

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

GRANTS-MEGA 10K grants
TOP-DECILE #32/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ricoh
CPC-WIDE G06F · 192 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ricoh Company, Ltd. (±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 Dell’s 78.6 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 31.9 pts (41%) Velocity 11.0 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Meta Platforms · near

79
Beijing BOE… · near

79
Charter Communicatio… · near

79
Dell Products · this assignee

79
RTX · near

79
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dell's Innovation Score is 78.6/100 (top 1% 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 Dell?

Each dot is one of Dell’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). Dell’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Dell's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dell Products L.P. received 5,595 grants versus 2,932 in 2015–2019 (+91% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 1,553 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 376. Lead class G06F accounts for 70.3% of the portfolio across 192 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (#28) and Fujitsu Limited (#36).

Dell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dell Products L.P. moved from 2,385 to 3,920 grants (1.64x 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 #348. See the growth leaderboard.

GM Global Technol…

11,736
Nike

10,487
Cisco Technology

10,299
Ricoh

10,223
Dell Products ◀

10,222
Texas Instruments…

9,915
SK hynix

9,830
NEC

9,672
Fujitsu

9,654

What this shows Dell holds 10,222 patents at rank #32, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dell

By rank, the assignees closest to #32 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Dell ranks #8 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (79 here).

RTX Corporation 79 Charter Communications Operating, LLC 79 Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd. 79 Meta Platforms, Inc. 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 17.9 avg Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC 17.9 avg Xintec Inc. 17.9 avg The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte 17.9 avg

Dell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

79 Top 1% higher than 99% 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

Dell Products L.P. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	376	3.7%
2016	506	5.0%
2017	649	6.3%
2018	691	6.8%
2019	710	6.9%
2020	873	8.5%
2021	802	7.8%
2022	1,143	11.2%
2023	1,224	12.0%
2024	1,553	15.2%
2025partial year	1,695	16.6%

Which technologies does Dell Products L.P. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7,187

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2,431

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1,004

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 569

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 499

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 496

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 359

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 278

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 248

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 248

H04B - Transmission 239

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 206

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 182

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 170

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 150

Top 15 of 192 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

Dell Products L.P.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dell Products L.P.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 70.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #32 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dell Products L.P. against GM Global Technology Operations LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.6/100 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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