Where does Palantir Technologies Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Palantir Technologies Inc. ranks #280 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 Palantir Technologies Inc. hold?

Palantir Technologies Inc. holds 1,534 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Palantir Technologies Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Palantir Technologies Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.1 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 Palantir Technologies Inc. focus on?

Palantir Technologies Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,319 patents, ranking #57 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

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

Palantir Technologies Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +121% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Palantir Technologies Inc.'s patents?

Palantir Technologies Inc.'s patents average 17.3 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 Palantir Technologies 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

Palantir Technologies Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,534 granted patents across 40 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Palantir ranks #280 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,534 patents across 40 technology areas.

#280
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.1/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +121%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R280 · US Corporation #280 · 1,534 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #280/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The General Hospital
CPC-WIDE G06F · 40 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +121% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The General Hospital Corporation (±5 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 Palantir’s 65.1 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 25.3 pts (39%) Velocity 7.0 pts (11%) Breadth 22.4 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lockheed Martin · near

65
MSG Entertainment… · near

65
Palantir · this assignee

65
Wacom · near

65
Lumileds · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Palantir's Innovation Score is 65.1/100 (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 Palantir?

Each dot is one of Palantir’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). Palantir’s own 17.3 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.

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

Where Palantir's grants concentrate

Palantir Technologies Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 86% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (212 grants) versus a trough of 35 in 2015. By volume, Palantir sits between Goodrich Corporation and Panasonic Holdings Corporation.

Palantir's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Palantir Technologies Inc. moved from 549 to 573 grants (1.04x 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 #1,073. See the growth leaderboard.

Goodrich

1,557
Motorola Solutions

1,555
Bose

1,553
Toray Industries

1,543
Palantir ◀

1,534
The General Hospi…

1,529
Aktiebolaget SKF

1,526
Accenture Global…

1,520
Panasonic Holdings

1,518

What this shows Palantir holds 1,534 patents at rank #280, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Palantir

By rank, the assignees closest to #280 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Palantir, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Palantir ranks #57 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Wacom Co., Ltd. 65 Lockheed Martin Corporation 65 MSG Entertainment Group, LLC 65 Lumileds LLC 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

Semtech Corporation 17.3 avg Visa International Service Association 17.4 avg University of Southern California 17.3 avg ICU Medical, Inc. 17.3 avg

Palantir's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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.

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Palantir Technologies Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	2.3%
2016	67	4.4%
2017	82	5.3%
2018	105	6.8%
2019	151	9.8%
2020	210	13.7%
2021	188	12.3%
2022	200	13.0%
2023	212	13.8%
2024	161	10.5%
2025partial year	123	8.0%

Which technologies does Palantir Technologies Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,319

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 350

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 263

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 158

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 100

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 63

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 35

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 29

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 28

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 25

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 16

H04M - Telephonic Communication 12

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

Top 15 of 40 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

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

Palantir Technologies Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 86% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #280 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Palantir Technologies Inc. against Goodrich Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.1/100 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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