Where does Mentor Graphics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mentor Graphics Corporation ranks #1,269 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 Mentor Graphics Corporation hold?

Mentor Graphics Corporation holds 333 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Mentor Graphics Corporation's Innovation Score?

Mentor Graphics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.7 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mentor Graphics Corporation focus on?

Mentor Graphics Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 267 patents, ranking #243 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mentor Graphics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mentor Graphics Corporation's recent grant velocity is -67% 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 Mentor Graphics Corporation's patents?

Mentor Graphics Corporation's patents average 18.3 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 Mentor Graphics 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

Mentor Graphics Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 333 granted patents across 41 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mentor ranks #1,269 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 333 patents across 41 technology areas.

#1,269
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.7/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1269 · US Corporation #1,269 · 333 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 333 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,269/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Conduent Business…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Conduent Business Services, LLC (±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 Mentor’s 53.7 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 20.1 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 22.6 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Novomer · near

54
ETH ZËRICH · near

54
Ishida · near

54
Mentor Graphics · this assignee

54
Saudi Basic Industries · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mentor's Innovation Score is 53.7/100 (top 9% 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 Mentor?

Each dot is one of Mentor’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). Mentor’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mentor's grants concentrate

Mentor Graphics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 80.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (67 grants) versus a trough of 16 in 2021. By volume, Mentor sits between K2M, Inc. and Soitec.

K2M

334
Unimicron Technol…

334
Vertex Pharmaceut…

334
Conduent Business…

333
Toyo Seikan

333
Mentor Graphics ◀

333
Cartier Internati…

332
ICU Medical

332
Soitec

332

What this shows Mentor holds 333 patents at rank #1,269, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mentor

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,269 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mentor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Mentor ranks #243 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation 54 Ishida Co., Ltd. 54 ETH ZËRICH 54 Novomer, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Datalogic IP Tech S.R.L. 18.3 avg Chemocentryx, Inc. 18.3 avg Elbit Systems Ltd. 18.3 avg Dura Operating, LLC 18.3 avg

Mentor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Mentor Graphics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	53	15.9%
2016	47	14.1%
2017	48	14.4%
2018	38	11.4%
2019	64	19.2%
2020	67	20.1%
2021	16	4.8%

Which technologies does Mentor Graphics Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 267

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 85

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 33

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

G11C - Static Stores 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 5

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 5

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 4

Top 15 of 41 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

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

Mentor Graphics Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 80.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,269 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mentor Graphics Corporation against K2M, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.7/100 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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