Where does Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated ranks #445 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 Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated hold?

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated holds 1,025 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 228 technology areas.

What is Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 63.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated focus on?

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 233 patents. Grants appear in 228 CPC subclasses total.

Is Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's patents?

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's patents average 18.1 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 Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 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

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,025 granted patents across 228 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, Palo ranks #445 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,025 patents across 228 technology areas.

#445
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.2/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R445 · US Corporation #445 · 1,025 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #445/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aptiv
CPC-BROAD G06F · 228 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aptiv Technologies AG (±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
Nederlandse… · near

63
Palo Alto Research… · this assignee

63
Raytheon BBN · near

63
Abb Vie · near

63
Siemens Healthcare… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Palo's Innovation Score is 63.2/100 (top 2% 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.

How Palo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated received 388 grants versus 635 in 2015–2019 (-39% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 136 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 4. Lead class G06F accounts for 22.7% of the portfolio across 228 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (#441) and Allstate Insurance Company (#449).

Palo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated moved from 338 to 171 grants (0.51x 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 #2,683. See the growth leaderboard.

Carl Zeiss SMT

1,028
DSM IP Assets B V

1,027
Aptiv

1,025
Deka Products Par…

1,025
Palo Alto Researc… ◀

1,025
Kobe Steel

1,023
Commvault Systems

1,020
Mayo Foundation f…

1,020
Allstate Insurance

1,012

What this shows Palo holds 1,025 patents at rank #445, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Palo

By rank, the assignees closest to #445 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO 63 Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. 63 Abb Vie Inc. 63 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch 18.1 avg Beijing Sensetime Technology Development Co., Ltd 18.1 avg ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG 18.1 avg Chatsworth Products, Inc. 18.1 avg

Palo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	133	13.0%
2016	136	13.3%
2017	119	11.6%
2018	126	12.3%
2019	121	11.8%
2020	93	9.1%
2021	124	12.1%
2022	99	9.7%
2023	68	6.6%
2024	4	0.4%
2025partial year	2	0.2%

Which technologies does Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 233

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 119

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 88

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 83

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 80

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 67

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 65

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 65

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 63

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 63

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 55

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 49

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 47

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 39

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 39

Top 15 of 228 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#445

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.2 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

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 22.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #445 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated against Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.2/100 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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