Where does Discord Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Discord Inc. ranks #21,012 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 Discord Inc. hold?

Discord Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Discord Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Discord Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Discord Inc. focus on?

Discord Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 9 patents, ranking #3,920 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Discord Inc..

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

Discord Inc.'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 Discord 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

Discord Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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, Discord ranks #21,012 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 6 technology areas.

#21,012
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21012 · US Corporation #21,012 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,012/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Derq
CPC-NARROW G06F · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Derq 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 Discord’s 48.5 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 9.1 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 8.7 pts (18%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alcon Research · near

49
C3 Nano · near

49
Discord · this assignee

49
ENDRESS+HAUSER… · near

49
Railway Equipment · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Discord's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Discord?

Each dot is one of Discord’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). Discord’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Discord's grants concentrate

Discord Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Discord sits between Derq Inc. and Donghua University.

Discord's three-year grant acceleration

Discord Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Derq

13
Dh2i

13
Diamond Game Ente…

13
Diesel S P A

13
Doben

13
Dolce & Gabbana S…

13
Dongguan Suntech

13
Donghua University

13
Discord ◀

13

What this shows Discord holds 13 patents at rank #20,996, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Discord

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,996 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Discord, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Discord ranks #3,920 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Railway Equipment Company 49 C3 Nano, Inc. 49 ENDRESS+HAUSER Wetzer GMBH+CO. KG 49 Alcon Research, Ltd. 49

Discord's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Discord Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	7.7%
2023	3	23.1%
2024	2	15.4%
2025partial year	7	53.8%

Which technologies does Discord Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 7

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 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Discord Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #21,012 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Discord Inc. against Derq Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.