Where does Impinj, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Impinj, Inc. ranks #2,241 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 Impinj, Inc. hold?

Impinj, Inc. holds 175 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Impinj, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Impinj, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Impinj, Inc. focus on?

Impinj, Inc.'s top technology area is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers) with 164 patents, ranking #19 of 1,953 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Impinj, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Impinj, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Impinj, Inc.'s patents?

Impinj, Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Impinj, Inc. 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

Impinj, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 175 granted patents across 22 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: G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Impinj ranks #2,241 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 175 patents across 22 technology areas.

#2,241
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2241 · US Corporation #2,241 · 175 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 175 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,241/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ambarella Internatio…
CPC-FOCUS G06K · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ambarella International LP (±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 Impinj’s 49.4 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 17.9 pts (36%) Velocity 4.0 pts (8%) Breadth 16.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Impinj · this assignee

49
Minebea · near

49
Saginomiya Seisakusho · near

49
Toyota Shatai · near

49
Wheel Pros · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Impinj's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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 Impinj?

Each dot is one of Impinj’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). Impinj’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Impinj's grants concentrate

Impinj, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 93.7% of grants classified under G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (24 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2024. By volume, Impinj sits between Ambarella International LP and Safran Landing Systems.

Impinj's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Impinj, Inc. moved from 54 to 32 grants (0.59x 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 #2,465. See the growth leaderboard.

Ambarella Interna…

175
Beijing Universit…

175
D-wave Systems

175
Fujifilm Sonosite

175
LNW Gaming

175
Navico Holding AS

175
Oracle America

175
Safran Landing Sy…

175
Impinj ◀

175

What this shows Impinj holds 175 patents at rank #2,241, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Impinj

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,241 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06K (Graphical Data Reading)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Impinj, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06K (Graphical Data Reading), Impinj ranks #19 of 1,953 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Minebea Co., Ltd. 49 Wheel Pros LLC 49 Saginomiya Seisakusho, Inc. 49 Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH 18.4 avg Ivanti, Inc. 18.4 avg British Telecommunications PLC 18.4 avg Oxford University Innovation Limited 18.4 avg

Impinj's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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

Impinj, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	13.7%
2016	15	8.6%
2017	18	10.3%
2018	24	13.7%
2019	17	9.7%
2020	23	13.1%
2021	14	8.0%
2022	14	8.0%
2023	11	6.3%
2024	7	4.0%
2025partial year	8	4.6%

Which technologies does Impinj, Inc. patent most?

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 164

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 53

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 38

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 32

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 21

H04Q - Selecting 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 7

H04B - Transmission 5

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

H03K - Pulse Technique 4

Top 15 of 22 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

Impinj, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Impinj, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers), 93.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06K
Ranked #2,241 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Impinj, Inc. against Ambarella International LP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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.