Where does Pure Storage, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pure Storage, Inc. ranks #257 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 Pure Storage, Inc. hold?

Pure Storage, Inc. holds 1,652 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Pure Storage, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Pure Storage, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.6 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 Pure Storage, Inc. focus on?

Pure Storage, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,595 patents, ranking #46 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Pure Storage, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pure Storage, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +213% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Pure Storage, Inc.'s patents?

Pure Storage, Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 Pure Storage, 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

Pure Storage, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,652 granted patents across 35 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, Pure ranks #257 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,652 patents across 35 technology areas.

#257
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.6/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +213%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R257 · US Corporation #257 · 1,652 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #257/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Infineon Austria
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 35 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +213% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Infineon Technologies Austria AG (±2 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 Pure’s 65.6 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 25.6 pts (39%) Velocity 7.9 pts (12%) Breadth 20.9 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nintendo · near

66
Changzhou University · near

66
Pure Storage · this assignee

66
AT&T Mobility II · near

66
Board OF Trustees… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pure's Innovation Score is 65.6/100 (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 Pure?

Each dot is one of Pure’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). Pure’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pure's grants concentrate

Pure Storage, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 96.5% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (273 grants) versus a trough of 17 in 2015. By volume, Pure sits between Rockwell Collins, Inc. and Rambus Inc..

Pure's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pure Storage, Inc. moved from 614 to 724 grants (1.18x 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 #818. See the growth leaderboard.

Rockwell Collins

1,679
Rockwell Automati…

1,672
THE Regents OF TH…

1,666
Wisconsin Alumni…

1,659
Pure Storage ◀

1,652
Infineon Austria

1,650
Au Optronics

1,648
NGK Insulators

1,631
Rambus

1,626

What this shows Pure holds 1,652 patents at rank #257, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pure

By rank, the assignees closest to #257 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pure, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Pure ranks #46 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Changzhou University 66 AT&T Mobility II LLC 66 Nintendo Co., Ltd. 66 Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. 18.7 avg Shanghai Langbo Communication Technology Company Limited 18.7 avg Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd. 18.7 avg DP Technologies, Inc. 18.7 avg

Pure's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 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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Pure Storage, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	1.0%
2016	31	1.9%
2017	56	3.4%
2018	52	3.1%
2019	206	12.5%
2020	209	12.7%
2021	199	12.0%
2022	199	12.0%
2023	252	15.3%
2024	273	16.5%
2025partial year	158	9.6%

Which technologies does Pure Storage, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,595

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 606

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 201

G11C - Static Stores 89

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 68

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 56

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 25

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

H04H - Broadcast Communication 3

H04B - Transmission 2

Top 15 of 35 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

Pure Storage, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pure Storage, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 96.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #257 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pure Storage, Inc. against Rockwell Collins, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.6/100 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

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