Where does Nvidia Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nvidia Corporation ranks #120 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 Nvidia Corporation hold?

Nvidia Corporation holds 3,075 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 119 technology areas.

What is Nvidia Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nvidia Corporation has an Innovation Score of 77.7 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 Nvidia Corporation focus on?

Nvidia Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,522 patents, ranking #47 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 119 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nvidia Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nvidia Corporation's recent grant velocity is +3% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Nvidia Corporation's patents?

Nvidia Corporation's patents average 20.6 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 Nvidia 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

Nvidia Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,075 granted patents across 119 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nvidia ranks #120 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,075 patents across 119 technology areas.

#120
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (77.7/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: +3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R120 · US Corporation #120 · 3,075 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #120/49,997
NEAR-PEER Raytheon
CPC-WIDE G06F · 119 areas
INNOV-STRONG 77.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Raytheon Company (±33 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 Nvidia’s 77.7 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 27.7 pts (36%) Velocity 12.6 pts (16%) Breadth 25.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kyndryl · near

78
Nvidia · this assignee

78
Adeia Guides · near

78
Motional AD · near

77
Intel · near

77
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nvidia's Innovation Score is 77.7/100 (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 Nvidia?

Each dot is one of Nvidia’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). Nvidia’s own 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Nvidia's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nvidia Corporation received 1,367 grants versus 1,321 in 2015–2019 (+3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 418 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 158. Lead class G06F accounts for 49.5% of the portfolio across 119 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (#116) and Centre National DE LA Recherche Scientifique (#124).

Nvidia's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nvidia Corporation moved from 530 to 1,003 grants (1.89x 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 #243. See the growth leaderboard.

Sumitomo Wiring S…

3,190
Medtronic

3,184
Stmicroelectronics

3,182
Raytheon

3,108
Nvidia ◀

3,075
Sony Interactive…

3,038
Mediatek

3,036
Pioneer Hi-bred I…

3,033
Centre National D…

3,025

What this shows Nvidia holds 3,075 patents at rank #120, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nvidia

By rank, the assignees closest to #120 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nvidia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Nvidia ranks #47 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (78 here).

Kyndryl, Inc. 78 Adeia Guides Inc. 78 Motional AD LLC 77 Intel Corporation 77

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.6 here).

Futurewei Technologies, Inc. 20.6 avg Macom Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. 20.6 avg MorphoTrust USA, LLC 20.6 avg Salk Institute for Biological Studies 20.6 avg

Nvidia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

78 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.

View data table

Nvidia Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	326	10.6%
2016	354	11.5%
2017	278	9.0%
2018	197	6.4%
2019	166	5.4%
2020	158	5.1%
2021	206	6.7%
2022	214	7.0%
2023	371	12.1%
2024	418	13.6%
2025partial year	387	12.6%

Which technologies does Nvidia Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,522

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1,069

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 500

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 371

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 280

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 276

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 217

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 137

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 116

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 113

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 108

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 105

G11C - Static Stores 99

H03K - Pulse Technique 88

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 81

Top 15 of 119 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Nvidia Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 49.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #120 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nvidia Corporation against Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 77.7/100 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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