Where does EMC Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), EMC Corporation ranks #292 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 EMC Corporation hold?

EMC Corporation holds 1,455 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is EMC Corporation's Innovation Score?

EMC Corporation has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does EMC Corporation focus on?

EMC Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,253 patents, ranking #62 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

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

EMC Corporation's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 EMC Corporation's patents?

EMC Corporation's patents average 19.3 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 EMC 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

EMC Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,455 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, EMC ranks #292 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,455 patents across 33 technology areas.

#292
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R292 · US Corporation #292 · 1,455 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #292/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hefei Xinsheng…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 EMC’s 57.3 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 25.2 pts (44%) Velocity 0.3 pts (1%) Breadth 20.3 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Benteler Automobilte… · near

57
EMC · this assignee

57
Navico Holding AS · near

57
THE University OF… · near

57
Wayne Fueling Systems · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows EMC's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% 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 EMC?

Each dot is one of EMC’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). EMC’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where EMC's grants concentrate

EMC Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 86.1% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (669 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, EMC sits between Altria Client Services LLC and JFE Steel Corporation.

EMC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, EMC Corporation moved from 45 to 2 grants (0.04x 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 #3,234. See the growth leaderboard.

Altria Client Ser…

1,483
Jpmorgan Chase Ba…

1,478
Lockheed Martin

1,464
Nanya Technology

1,461
Hefei Xinsheng Op…

1,455
EMC ◀

1,455
Toshiba Devices &…

1,454
Vivo Mobile Commu…

1,451
JFE Steel

1,443

What this shows EMC holds 1,455 patents at rank #292, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near EMC

By rank, the assignees closest to #292 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for EMC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), EMC ranks #62 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

THE University OF Akron 57 Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH 57 Navico Holding AS 57 Wayne Fueling Systems LLC 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Duke University 19.3 avg Twilio Inc. 19.3 avg Yahoo Assets LLC 19.3 avg Slack Technologies, LLC 19.3 avg

EMC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

View data table

EMC Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	669	46.0%
2016	668	45.9%
2017	32	2.2%
2018	39	2.7%
2019	32	2.2%
2020	8	0.5%
2021	5	0.3%
2022	2	0.1%

Which technologies does EMC Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,253

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 409

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 70

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 37

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 32

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 18

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 14

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 13

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 12

G11C - Static Stores 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 7

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

Top 15 of 33 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

EMC Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 86.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #292 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare EMC Corporation against Altria Client Services LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 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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