Where does Facebook, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Facebook, Inc. ranks #73 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 Facebook, Inc. hold?

Facebook, Inc. holds 4,875 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 141 technology areas.

What is Facebook, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Facebook, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Facebook, Inc. focus on?

Facebook, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 2,657 patents. Grants appear in 141 CPC subclasses total.

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

Facebook, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -49% 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 Facebook, Inc.'s patents?

Facebook, Inc.'s patents average 18.8 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 Facebook, 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

Facebook, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 4,875 granted patents across 141 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Facebook ranks #73 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 4,875 patents across 141 technology areas.

#73
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.8/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent: -49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R73 · US Corporation #73 · 4,875 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 4.9K grants
TOP-DECILE #73/49,997
NEAR-PEER Verizon Patent and…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 141 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (±13 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Autodesk · near

66
Facebook · this assignee

66
Maplebear · near

66
Rolls-royce · near

66
Eaton Intelligent… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Facebook's Innovation Score is 65.8/100 (top 1% 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.

How Facebook's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Facebook, Inc. received 1,654 grants versus 3,221 in 2015–2019 (-49% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 1,051 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class G06F accounts for 54.5% of the portfolio across 141 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (#69) and GlobalFoundries Inc. (#77).

Facebook's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Facebook, Inc. moved from 2,641 to 64 grants (0.02x 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 #3,261. See the growth leaderboard.

Hewlett Packard E…

5,165
Tokyo Electron

5,061
Bank of America

4,988
Vmware

4,914
Facebook ◀

4,875
Verizon Patent an…

4,862
Olympus

4,844
Schlumberger Tech…

4,606
Globalfoundries

4,547

What this shows Facebook holds 4,875 patents at rank #73, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Facebook

By rank, the assignees closest to #73 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Facebook, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Rolls-royce plc 66 Maplebear Inc. 66 Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 66 Autodesk, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.8 here).

Ferag AG 18.8 avg BitSight Technologies, Inc. 18.8 avg Woven Planet North America, Inc. 18.8 avg Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 18.8 avg

Facebook's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

Facebook, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	390	8.0%
2016	453	9.3%
2017	676	13.9%
2018	651	13.4%
2019	1,051	21.6%
2020	990	20.3%
2021	600	12.3%
2022	62	1.3%
2023	1	0.0%
2024	1	0.0%

Which technologies does Facebook, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2,657

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2,281

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 1,919

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 758

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 511

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 439

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 375

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 325

H04M - Telephonic Communication 168

H04B - Transmission 165

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 114

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 95

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 91

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 81

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 60

Top 15 of 141 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#73

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

65.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Facebook, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 54.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #73 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Facebook, Inc. against Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.8/100 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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