Where does Outbrain Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Outbrain Inc. ranks #6,475 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 Outbrain Inc. hold?

Outbrain Inc. holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Outbrain Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Outbrain Inc. has an Innovation Score of 25.3 out of 100 (17th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Outbrain Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -82% 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 Outbrain Inc.'s patents?

Outbrain Inc.'s patents average 5.3 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 Outbrain 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

Outbrain Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Outbrain Inc. focus on?

Outbrain Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 11 patents, ranking #1,164 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Outbrain ranks #6,475 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 5 technology areas.

#6,475
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 17th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.3/100): 5.3
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6475 · US Corporation #6,475 · 52 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,475/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NewAge Products
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NewAge Products 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.

How Outbrain’s 25.3 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 13.7 pts (54%) Velocity 0.4 pts (2%) Breadth 7.9 pts (31%) Claim depth 3.2 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HyTrust · near

25
Outbrain · this assignee

25
Torque-tech Precision · near

25
Anima Cell Metrology · near

25
Mafi Group AB · near

25
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Outbrain's Innovation Score is 25.3/100 (17th percentile 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 Outbrain?

Each dot is one of Outbrain’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). Outbrain’s own 5.3 claims/patent is at or below the 8.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Outbrain's grants concentrate

Outbrain Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 21.2% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (22 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Outbrain sits between Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd. and Shavelogic, Inc..

Outbrain's three-year grant acceleration

Outbrain Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Nihon Nohyaku

52
Nippon Steel & Su…

52
Nissei Plastic In…

52
Newage Products

52
Procept Bioroboti…

52
Quarsa

52
SDC U S Smilepay…

52
Shavelogic

52
Outbrain ◀

52

What this shows Outbrain holds 52 patents at rank #6,475, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Outbrain

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,475 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Outbrain, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Outbrain ranks #1,164 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (25 here).

HyTrust, Inc. 25 Torque-tech Precision Co., Ltd. 25 Mafi Group AB 25 Anima Cell Metrology 25

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.3 here).

eMoMo Technology Co., Ltd. 5.3 avg Rubbermaid Incorporated 5.3 avg Wenzhou University 5.3 avg Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. 5.3 avg

Outbrain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 17th percentile higher than 17% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Outbrain Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	17.3%
2016	22	42.3%
2017	3	5.8%
2018	2	3.8%
2019	8	15.4%
2020	5	9.6%
2021	2	3.8%
2022	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Outbrain Inc. patent most?

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 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 5 of 5 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

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

Outbrain Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 21.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #6,475 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Outbrain Inc. against Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.3/100 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

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