Where does Imagination Technologies Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Imagination Technologies Limited ranks #354 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 Imagination Technologies Limited hold?

Imagination Technologies Limited holds 1,222 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Imagination Technologies Limited's Innovation Score?

Imagination Technologies Limited has an Innovation Score of 65.3 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 Imagination Technologies Limited focus on?

Imagination Technologies Limited's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 665 patents, ranking #22 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Imagination Technologies Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Imagination Technologies Limited's recent grant velocity is +82% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Imagination Technologies Limited's patents?

Imagination Technologies Limited's patents average 18.7 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 Imagination Technologies Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Imagination Technologies Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,222 granted patents across 35 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Imagination ranks #354 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,222 patents across 35 technology areas.

#354
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.3/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R354 · Foreign Corporation #354 · 1,222 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #354/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Baidu…
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 35 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. (±1 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 Imagination’s 65.3 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 24.6 pts (38%) Velocity 8.6 pts (13%) Breadth 20.9 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carl Zeiss Jena · near

65
Tata Consultancy… · near

65
The Trustees of… · near

65
Beijing Research… · near

65
Imagination · this assignee

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Imagination's Innovation Score is 65.3/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Imagination?

Each dot is one of Imagination’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). Imagination’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Imagination's grants concentrate

Imagination Technologies Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 54.4% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (181 grants) versus a trough of 40 in 2015. By volume, Imagination sits between Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. and Volvo CAR Corporation.

Imagination's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Imagination Technologies Limited moved from 359 to 464 grants (1.29x 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 #650. See the growth leaderboard.

Warsaw Orthopedic

1,232
Johnson Controls…

1,231
Lutron Technology

1,229
Mahle Internation…

1,224
Imagination ◀

1,222
Beijing Baidu Net…

1,221
Rolls-royce

1,213
Pixart Imaging

1,212
Volvo CAR

1,206

What this shows Imagination holds 1,222 patents at rank #354, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Imagination

By rank, the assignees closest to #354 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Imagination, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Imagination ranks #22 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Beijing Research Institute OF Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation 65 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 65 The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 65 Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Polaris Industries Inc. 18.7 avg Hartford Fire Insurance Company 18.7 avg Enseo, LLC 18.7 avg AtriCure, Inc. 18.7 avg

Imagination's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Imagination Technologies Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	40	3.3%
2016	63	5.2%
2017	91	7.4%
2018	81	6.6%
2019	115	9.4%
2020	127	10.4%
2021	117	9.6%
2022	135	11.0%
2023	181	14.8%
2024	148	12.1%
2025partial year	124	10.1%

Which technologies does Imagination Technologies Limited patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 665

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 578

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 183

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 92

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 67

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 53

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 51

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 47

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 45

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 34

H04M - Telephonic Communication 33

H04B - Transmission 23

H04J - Multiplex Communication 21

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 16

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 13

Top 15 of 35 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

Imagination Technologies Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Imagination Technologies Limited's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 54.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #354 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Imagination Technologies Limited against Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.3/100 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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