Where does Pearson Education, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pearson Education, Inc. ranks #1,527 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 Pearson Education, Inc. hold?

Pearson Education, Inc. holds 273 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Pearson Education, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Pearson Education, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.8 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Pearson Education, Inc. focus on?

Pearson Education, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 185 patents, ranking #334 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pearson Education, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pearson Education, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Pearson Education, Inc.'s patents?

Pearson Education, Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Pearson Education, 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

Pearson Education, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 273 granted patents across 22 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, Pearson ranks #1,527 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 273 patents across 22 technology areas.

#1,527
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.8/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1527 · US Corporation #1,527 · 273 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 273 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,527/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DH Development PTE
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DH Technologies Development PTE. Ltd. (±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 Pearson’s 49.8 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 19.4 pts (39%) Velocity 2.8 pts (6%) Breadth 16.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Concepts Nrec · near

50
Norco Industries · near

50
Pearson Education · this assignee

50
Proton World… · near

50
Universite D'orleans · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pearson's Innovation Score is 49.8/100 (top 14% 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 Pearson?

Each dot is one of Pearson’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). Pearson’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pearson's grants concentrate

Pearson Education, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 67.8% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (56 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2015. By volume, Pearson sits between DH Technologies Development PTE. Ltd. and Acclarent, Inc..

Pearson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pearson Education, Inc. moved from 134 to 57 grants (0.42x 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 #2,835. See the growth leaderboard.

DH Development PTE

273
Nabtesco

273
Omya International

273
Otsuka Pharmaceut…

273
Roche Sequencing…

273
Valeo Schalter UN…

273
William Marsh Ric…

273
Pearson Education ◀

273
Acclarent

272

What this shows Pearson holds 273 patents at rank #1,527, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pearson

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,527 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pearson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Pearson ranks #334 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Proton World International N.V. 50 Norco Industries, Inc. 50 Universite D'orleans 50 Concepts Nrec, LLC 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Dish Network L.L.C. 18.3 avg Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. 18.3 avg Plume Design, Inc. 18.3 avg Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research 18.3 avg

Pearson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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

Pearson Education, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	1.8%
2016	19	7.0%
2017	18	6.6%
2018	37	13.6%
2019	39	14.3%
2020	56	20.5%
2021	39	14.3%
2022	27	9.9%
2023	21	7.7%
2024	9	3.3%
2025partial year	3	1.1%

Which technologies does Pearson Education, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 185

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 140

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 137

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 89

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 73

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 40

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 21

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

H04B - Transmission 4

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

Top 15 of 22 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

Pearson Education, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pearson Education, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 67.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,527 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pearson Education, Inc. against DH Technologies Development PTE. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.8/100 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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