Where does Harris Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Harris Corporation ranks #1,006 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 Harris Corporation hold?

Harris Corporation holds 437 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 143 technology areas.

What is Harris Corporation's Innovation Score?

Harris Corporation has an Innovation Score of 58.9 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Harris Corporation'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 Harris Corporation's patents?

Harris Corporation's patents average 20.2 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 Harris 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

Harris Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Harris Corporation focus on?

Harris Corporation's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 83 patents. Grants appear in 143 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 437 granted patents across 143 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Harris ranks #1,006 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 437 patents across 143 technology areas.

#1,006
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.9/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1006 · US Corporation #1,006 · 437 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 437 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,006/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advantest
CPC-WIDE E21B · 143 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advantest Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ChemImage · near

59
Harris · this assignee

59
Jvckenwood · near

59
L&T Technology… · near

59
Otto Bock Healthcare… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Harris's Innovation Score is 58.9/100 (top 4% 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 Harris's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Harris Corporation received 34 grants versus 402 in 2015–2019 (-92% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 136 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 2. Lead class E21B accounts for 19% of the portfolio across 143 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Knorr-bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (#1,002) and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (#1,010).

Harris's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Harris Corporation moved from 62 to 7 grants (0.11x 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 #3,160. See the growth leaderboard.

Knorr-bremse Syst…

438
Nuvoton Technology

438
Advantest

437
Block

437
Harris ◀

437
Glaxosmithkline B…

436
Ferrari S p A

435
Hansgrohe SE

435
Akamai

434

What this shows Harris holds 437 patents at rank #1,006, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Harris

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,006 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Jvckenwood Corporation 59 Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH 59 L&T Technology Services Limited 59 ChemImage Corporation 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.2 here).

Accuray Incorporated 20.2 avg Akoustis, Inc. 20.2 avg Sartorius Stedim FMT SAS 20.2 avg 2236008 Ontario Inc. 20.2 avg

Harris's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Harris Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	136	31.1%
2016	97	22.2%
2017	72	16.5%
2018	62	14.2%
2019	35	8.0%
2020	22	5.0%
2021	5	1.1%
2022	5	1.1%
2023	2	0.5%
2025partial year	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Harris Corporation patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 83

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 66

H04B - Transmission 54

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 50

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 44

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 39

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 33

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 27

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 24

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 24

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 22

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 22

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 19

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 18

Top 15 of 143 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,006

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.9 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

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

Harris Corporation's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 19% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #1,006 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Harris Corporation against Knorr-bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.9/100 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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