Where does FMR LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FMR LLC ranks #1,372 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 FMR LLC hold?

FMR LLC holds 306 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is FMR LLC's Innovation Score?

FMR LLC has an Innovation Score of 61.0 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does FMR LLC focus on?

FMR LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 204 patents, ranking #305 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

Is FMR LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FMR LLC's recent grant velocity is +54% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for FMR LLC's patents?

FMR LLC's patents average 20.9 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 FMR 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

FMR LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 306 granted patents across 37 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, FMR ranks #1,372 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 306 patents across 37 technology areas.

#1,372
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.0/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: +54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1372 · US Corporation #1,372 · 306 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 306 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,372/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bissell
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 37 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bissell 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 FMR’s 61.0 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 19.8 pts (32%) Velocity 7.2 pts (12%) Breadth 21.5 pts (35%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cambridge Enterprise · near

61
FMR · this assignee

61
GS Yuasa International · near

61
Nanotronics Imaging · near

61
Nova Chemicals… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows FMR's Innovation Score is 61.0/100 (top 3% 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 FMR?

Each dot is one of FMR’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). FMR’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where FMR's grants concentrate

FMR LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (42 grants) versus a trough of 15 in 2016. By volume, FMR sits between Bissell Inc. and University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

FMR's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, FMR LLC moved from 98 to 106 grants (1.08x 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 #996. See the growth leaderboard.

Bissell

306
Cedars Sinai Medi…

306
Coulter Ventures

306
DRÄGerwerk & Kgaa

306
Stmicroelectronic…

306
FMR ◀

306
Max

305
Nihon Kohden

305
University of Ken…

305

What this shows FMR holds 306 patents at rank #1,372, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FMR

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,372 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FMR, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), FMR ranks #305 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Cambridge Enterprise Limited 61 GS Yuasa International Ltd. 61 Nanotronics Imaging, Inc. 61 Nova Chemicals (International) S.A. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.9 here).

Imperva, Inc. 20.9 avg Debiotech S.A. 20.9 avg Verisign, Inc. 20.9 avg Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 20.9 avg

FMR's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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.

View data table

FMR LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	6.5%
2016	15	4.9%
2017	19	6.2%
2018	24	7.8%
2019	33	10.8%
2020	35	11.4%
2021	30	9.8%
2022	29	9.5%
2023	35	11.4%
2024	42	13.7%
2025partial year	24	7.8%

Which technologies does FMR LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 204

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 107

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 79

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 41

H04M - Telephonic Communication 28

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 25

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 21

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 20

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 13

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 5

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

Top 15 of 37 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

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

FMR LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,372 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FMR LLC against Bissell Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.0/100 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.