Where does Google Technology Holdings LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Google Technology Holdings LLC ranks #336 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 Google Technology Holdings LLC hold?

Google Technology Holdings LLC holds 1,294 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 93 technology areas.

What is Google Technology Holdings LLC's Innovation Score?

Google Technology Holdings LLC has an Innovation Score of 62.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Google Technology Holdings LLC focus on?

Google Technology Holdings LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 430 patents, ranking #170 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 93 CPC subclasses total.

Is Google Technology Holdings LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Google Technology Holdings LLC's recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Google Technology Holdings LLC's patents?

Google Technology Holdings LLC's patents average 17.9 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 Google Technology Holdings 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

Google Technology Holdings LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,294 granted patents across 93 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Google ranks #336 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,294 patents across 93 technology areas.

#336
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.4/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R336 · US Corporation #336 · 1,294 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #336/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Life
CPC-WIDE G06F · 93 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Life Technologies Corporation (±2 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 Google’s 62.4 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 24.8 pts (40%) Velocity 1.9 pts (3%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Google Technology… · this assignee

62
Otsuka Pharmaceutical · near

62
Spreadtrum Communica… · near

62
Textron Systems · near

62
Cook Medical · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Google's Innovation Score is 62.4/100 (top 2% 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 Google?

Each dot is one of Google’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). Google’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Google's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Google Technology Holdings LLC received 98 grants versus 1,190 in 2015–2019 (-92% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 374 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 10. Lead class G06F accounts for 33.2% of the portfolio across 93 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (#332) and Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (#340).

Google's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Google Technology Holdings LLC moved from 126 to 36 grants (0.29x 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 #3,012. See the growth leaderboard.

Biosense Webster…

1,301
Arizona Board OF…

1,298
Life

1,296
Yamaha

1,296
Google Technology… ◀

1,294
Makita

1,292
Nippon Steel

1,289
SZ DJI Technology

1,268
Edwards Lifescien…

1,265

What this shows Google holds 1,294 patents at rank #336, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Google

By rank, the assignees closest to #336 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Google, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Google ranks #170 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 62 Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 62 Textron Systems Corporation 62 Cook Medical Technologies LLC 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Lippert Components, Inc. 17.9 avg Mechoshade Systems, LLC 17.9 avg ST. Jude Medical Coordination Center Bvba 17.9 avg Battelle Memorial Institute 17.9 avg

Google's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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

Google Technology Holdings LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	372	28.7%
2016	374	28.9%
2017	253	19.6%
2018	127	9.8%
2019	64	4.9%
2020	38	2.9%
2021	24	1.9%
2022	10	0.8%
2023	16	1.2%
2024	10	0.8%
2025partial year	6	0.5%

Which technologies does Google Technology Holdings LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 430

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 404

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 379

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 317

H04M - Telephonic Communication 144

H04B - Transmission 110

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 84

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 57

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 46

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 44

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 43

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 33

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 28

H04H - Broadcast Communication 25

Top 15 of 93 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

Google Technology Holdings LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Google Technology Holdings LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 33.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #336 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Google Technology Holdings LLC against Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.4/100 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

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.