Where does Oath Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oath Inc. ranks #717 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 Oath Inc. hold?

Oath Inc. holds 635 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2021, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Oath Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Oath Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Oath Inc. focus on?

Oath Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 425 patents. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

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

Oath Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -32% 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 Oath Inc.'s patents?

Oath Inc.'s patents average 19.6 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 Oath 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

Oath Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 635 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2021. 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, Oath ranks #717 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 635 patents across 37 technology areas.

#717
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R717 · US Corporation #717 · 635 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 635 grants
TOP-DECILE #717/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Taylor Made Golf
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Grammer · near

56
Huntsman International · near

56
Laboratory OF… · near

56
Oath · this assignee

56
Sivantos Pte · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oath's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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.

Where Oath's grants concentrate

Oath Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 66.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (256 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Oath sits between Cooper Technologies Company and Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG.

Cooper

637
Industry-universi…

637
Ohio State Innova…

637
Schlage Lock

637
Taylor Made Golf

635
Oath ◀

635
The Regents of th…

634
Steelcase

632
Continental Teves…

631

What this shows Oath holds 635 patents at rank #717, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oath

By rank, the assignees closest to #717 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oath, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Sivantos Pte. Ltd. 56 Grammer AG 56 Huntsman International LLC 56 Laboratory Corporation OF America Holdings 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. 19.6 avg Altera Corporation 19.6 avg UAB 360 IT 19.6 avg Netronome Systems, Inc. 19.6 avg

Oath's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Oath Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	18	2.8%
2018	139	21.9%
2019	220	34.6%
2020	256	40.3%
2021	2	0.3%

Which technologies does Oath Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 425

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 286

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 195

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 71

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 61

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 56

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 37

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 32

H04M - Telephonic Communication 27

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 17

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 16

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04B - Transmission 5

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 5

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#717

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Oath Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 66.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #717 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oath Inc. against Cooper Technologies Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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.