Where does Home Depot Product Authority, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Home Depot Product Authority, LLC ranks #1,628 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 Home Depot Product Authority, LLC hold?

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC holds 253 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's Innovation Score?

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC has an Innovation Score of 50.7 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Home Depot Product Authority, LLC focus on?

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 45 patents, ranking #1,054 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

Is Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's patents?

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's patents average 8.0 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 Home Depot Product Authority, 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

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 253 granted patents across 38 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Home ranks #1,628 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 253 patents across 38 technology areas.

#1,628
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.7/100): 8.0
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1628 · US Corporation #1,628 · 253 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 253 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,628/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aruba Networks
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 8.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aruba Networks, 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 Home’s 50.7 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 19.1 pts (38%) Velocity 5.0 pts (10%) Breadth 21.8 pts (43%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Home Depot Product… · this assignee

51
Nippon Chemical… · near

51
Pantech · near

51
Paramount BED · near

51
SMK · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Home's Innovation Score is 50.7/100 (top 12% 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 Home?

Each dot is one of Home’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). Home’s own 8.0 claims/patent is at or below the 10.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Home's grants concentrate

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 17.8% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (50 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2022. By volume, Home sits between Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. and Aurora Operations, Inc..

Home's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Home Depot Product Authority, LLC moved from 70 to 53 grants (0.76x 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 #1,969. See the growth leaderboard.

Shin-etsu Handotai

254
Aruba Networks

253
E Mishan & Sons

253
Heidelberger Druc…

253
Illumina Cambridge

253
Reebok Internatio…

253
Stine Seed Farm

253
Home Depot Produc… ◀

253
Aurora Operations

252

What this shows Home holds 253 patents at rank #1,628, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Home

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,628 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Home, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Home ranks #1,054 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Pantech Corporation 51 SMK Corporation 51 Paramount BED Co., Ltd. 51 Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.0 here).

WHG Properties, LLC 8.0 avg Soochow University 8.0 avg Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd. 7.9 avg Amada Co., Ltd. 7.9 avg

Home's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	28	11.1%
2017	50	19.8%
2018	41	16.2%
2019	28	11.1%
2020	24	9.5%
2021	18	7.1%
2022	12	4.7%
2023	15	5.9%
2024	26	10.3%
2025partial year	11	4.3%

Which technologies does Home Depot Product Authority, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 45

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 44

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 17

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 5

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 3

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 2

Top 15 of 38 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Home Depot Product Authority, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 17.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,628 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Home Depot Product Authority, LLC against Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.7/100 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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