Where does Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC ranks #273 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 Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC hold?

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC holds 1,569 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 148 technology areas.

What is Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC's Innovation Score?

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC has an Innovation Score of 81.4 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 Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC focus on?

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 766 patents, ranking #18 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 148 CPC subclasses total.

Is Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC's patents?

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC'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 Meta Platforms Technologies, 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

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,569 granted patents across 148 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Meta ranks #273 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,569 patents across 148 technology areas.

#273
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (81.4/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R273 · US Corporation #273 · 1,569 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-ELITE · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #273/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acushnet
CPC-WIDE G02B · 148 areas
INNOV-ELITE 81.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acushnet Company (±2 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 Meta’s 81.4 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 25.4 pts (31%) Velocity 20.0 pts (25%) Breadth 25.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Taiwan Semiconductor… · near

82
KIA · near

81
Samsung · near

81
Meta Platforms · this assignee

81
Chengdu BOE… · near

81
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Meta's Innovation Score is 81.4/100 (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 Meta?

Each dot is one of Meta’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). Meta’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Meta's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2022–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 643 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 241. Lead class G02B accounts for 48.8% of the portfolio across 148 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc. (#269) and Motorola Solutions, Inc. (#277).

Meta's three-year grant acceleration

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC shows 1,285 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Changxin Memory

1,589
Here Global B V

1,589
Sprint Communicat…

1,574
Wuhan China Star…

1,572
Meta Platforms ◀

1,569
Acushnet

1,567
Colgate-palmolive

1,565
Goodrich

1,557
Motorola Solutions

1,555

What this shows Meta holds 1,569 patents at rank #273, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Meta

By rank, the assignees closest to #273 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Meta, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Meta ranks #18 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (81 here).

KIA Corporation 81 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 81 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. 82 Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 81

Similar claim depth

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

West Corporation 18.3 avg Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. 18.3 avg Gogo LLC 18.3 avg Kunlunxin Technology (BEIJING) Company Limited 18.3 avg

Meta's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

81 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 · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	241	15.4%
2023	643	41.0%
2024	401	25.6%
2025partial year	284	18.1%

Which technologies does Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 766

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 644

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 379

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 247

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 166

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 141

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 117

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 112

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 108

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 90

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 90

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 70

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 70

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 66

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 59

Top 15 of 148 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

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 48.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #273 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC against Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 81.4/100 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

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