Where does Dreamworks Animation LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dreamworks Animation LLC ranks #3,912 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 Dreamworks Animation LLC hold?

Dreamworks Animation LLC holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Dreamworks Animation LLC's Innovation Score?

Dreamworks Animation LLC has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dreamworks Animation LLC focus on?

Dreamworks Animation LLC's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 81 patents, ranking #196 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dreamworks Animation LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dreamworks Animation LLC'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 Dreamworks Animation LLC's patents?

Dreamworks Animation LLC's patents average 24.8 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 Dreamworks Animation LLC 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

Dreamworks Animation LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dreamworks ranks #3,912 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 18 technology areas.

#3,912
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 24.8
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3912 · US Corporation #3,912 · 92 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,912/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bang & Olufsen A/S
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bang & Olufsen A/S (±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 Dreamworks’s 47.1 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 15.7 pts (33%) Velocity 1.5 pts (3%) Breadth 15.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 14.9 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aten International · near

47
Dreamworks Animation · this assignee

47
Intrabio · near

47
MVE Biological… · near

47
Nektar Therapeutics · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dreamworks's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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 Dreamworks?

Each dot is one of Dreamworks’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). Dreamworks’s own 24.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dreamworks's grants concentrate

Dreamworks Animation LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 88% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Dreamworks sits between BOE Optical Science and Technology Co., Ltd. and Essenlix Corporation.

Dreamworks's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dreamworks Animation LLC moved from 35 to 8 grants (0.23x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

BOE Optical Scien…

92
Bang & Olufsen A/S

92
Cidra Corporate S…

92
Cirque

92
Databricks

92
Doordash

92
Elsner Pac Jungpf…

92
Essenlix

92
Dreamworks Animat… ◀

92

What this shows Dreamworks holds 92 patents at rank #3,910, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dreamworks

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,910 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dreamworks, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Dreamworks ranks #196 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Aten International Co., Ltd 47 Nektar Therapeutics 47 Intrabio Ltd. 47 MVE Biological Solutions US, LLC 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.8 here).

Cavium, LLC. 24.8 avg Greatbatch Ltd. 24.8 avg Iscar, Ltd. 24.9 avg Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. 24.8 avg

Dreamworks's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Dreamworks Animation LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	16.3%
2016	11	12.0%
2017	11	12.0%
2018	12	13.0%
2019	10	10.9%
2020	15	16.3%
2021	10	10.9%
2022	3	3.3%
2023	3	3.3%
2024	2	2.2%

Which technologies does Dreamworks Animation LLC patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 81

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 14

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 9

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Dreamworks Animation LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dreamworks Animation LLC's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 88% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #3,912 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dreamworks Animation LLC against BOE Optical Science and Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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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