Where does Digimarc Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Digimarc Corporation ranks #839 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 Digimarc Corporation hold?

Digimarc Corporation holds 543 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is Digimarc Corporation's Innovation Score?

Digimarc Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.9 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 Digimarc Corporation focus on?

Digimarc Corporation's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 353 patents, ranking #46 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

Is Digimarc Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Digimarc Corporation's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Digimarc Corporation's patents?

Digimarc Corporation's patents average 19.4 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 Digimarc Corporation 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

Digimarc Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 543 granted patents across 74 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Digimarc ranks #839 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 543 patents across 74 technology areas.

#839
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.9/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R839 · US Corporation #839 · 543 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 543 grants
TOP-DECILE #839/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aisin
CPC-WIDE G06T · 74 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aisin Corporation (±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 Digimarc’s 62.9 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 21.8 pts (35%) Velocity 4.4 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shanghaitech… · near

63
Digimarc · this assignee

63
Innomotics · near

63
Southwest Petroleum… · near

63
Wangs Alliance · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Digimarc's Innovation Score is 62.9/100 (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 Digimarc?

Each dot is one of Digimarc’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). Digimarc’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Digimarc's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Digimarc Corporation received 187 grants versus 334 in 2015–2019 (-44% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 88 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 30. Lead class G06T accounts for 65% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Inserm (INSTITUT National DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA Recherche MÉDICALE) (#835) and Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (#843).

Digimarc's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Digimarc Corporation moved from 150 to 100 grants (0.67x 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 #2,253. See the growth leaderboard.

Inserm (Institut…

545
Max-planck-gesell…

544
Aisin

543
Delta (Shanghai)

543
Johnson & Johnson…

543
Xiamen Tianma Mic…

543
Digimarc ◀

543
Autoliv Developme…

542
Funai Electric

541

What this shows Digimarc holds 543 patents at rank #839, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Digimarc

By rank, the assignees closest to #839 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Digimarc, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Digimarc ranks #46 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Southwest Petroleum University 63 Innomotics GMBH 63 Wangs Alliance Corporation 63 Shanghaitech University 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Donaldson Company, Inc. 19.4 avg Synaptics Incorporated 19.4 avg Canon U.S.A., Inc. 19.4 avg Illuscio, Inc. 19.4 avg

Digimarc'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

Digimarc Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	59	10.9%
2016	88	16.2%
2017	71	13.1%
2018	53	9.8%
2019	63	11.6%
2020	48	8.8%
2021	39	7.2%
2022	36	6.6%
2023	34	6.3%
2024	30	5.5%
2025partial year	22	4.1%

Which technologies does Digimarc Corporation patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 353

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 260

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 191

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 141

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 121

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 105

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 78

H04M - Telephonic Communication 77

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 74

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 64

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 21

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 20

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 20

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 18

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 18

Top 15 of 74 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Digimarc Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Digimarc Corporation's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 65% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #839 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Digimarc Corporation against Inserm (INSTITUT National DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA Recherche MÉDICALE), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.9/100 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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