Where does Electronic Arts Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Electronic Arts Inc. ranks #816 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 Electronic Arts Inc. hold?

Electronic Arts Inc. holds 561 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Electronic Arts Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Electronic Arts Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.4 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Electronic Arts Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +114% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Electronic Arts Inc.'s patents average 19.1 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 Electronic Arts 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

Electronic Arts Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Electronic Arts Inc. focus on?

Electronic Arts Inc.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 422 patents, ranking #6 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 561 granted patents across 25 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Electronic ranks #816 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 561 patents across 25 technology areas.

#816
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.4/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: +114%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R816 · US Corporation #816 · 561 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 561 grants
TOP-DECILE #816/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gilead Sciences
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +114% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gilead Sciences, 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 Electronic’s 56.4 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 21.9 pts (39%) Velocity 5.4 pts (10%) Breadth 17.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arts · this assignee

56
Calb · near

56
Kyungdong Navien · near

56
The Rockefeller… · near

56
Micro Focus · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Electronic's Innovation Score is 56.4/100 (top 6% 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 Electronic?

Each dot is one of Electronic’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). Electronic’s own 19.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Electronic's grants concentrate

Electronic Arts Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 75.2% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (92 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2016. By volume, Electronic sits between Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. and Unicharm Corporation.

Electronic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Electronic Arts Inc. moved from 247 to 200 grants (0.81x 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 #1,809. See the growth leaderboard.

Tetra Laval Holdi…

568
Sekisui Chemical

565
Polaris Industries

563
Under Armour

563
Gilead Sciences

561
Yaskawa Denki

561
Arts ◀

561
Toto

560
Unicharm

560

What this shows Electronic holds 561 patents at rank #816, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Electronic

By rank, the assignees closest to #816 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Electronic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), Electronic ranks #6 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

The Rockefeller University 56 Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. 56 Calb Co., Ltd. 56 Micro Focus LLC 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Uatc, LLC 19.1 avg Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 19.1 avg BlackBerry Limited 19.1 avg Infineon Technologies AG 19.1 avg

Electronic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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.

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Electronic Arts Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	1.4%
2016	4	0.7%
2017	21	3.7%
2018	41	7.3%
2019	92	16.4%
2020	78	13.9%
2021	77	13.7%
2022	66	11.8%
2023	69	12.3%
2024	65	11.6%
2025partial year	40	7.1%

Which technologies does Electronic Arts Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 422

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 151

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 122

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 108

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 46

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 40

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 35

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 33

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 28

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 19

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 9

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 6

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 3

Top 15 of 25 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

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

Electronic Arts Inc.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 75.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #816 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Electronic Arts Inc. against Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.4/100 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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