Where does Quantum Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Quantum Corporation ranks #2,066 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 Quantum Corporation hold?

Quantum Corporation holds 192 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Quantum Corporation's Innovation Score?

Quantum Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.6 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Quantum Corporation focus on?

Quantum Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 128 patents. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Quantum Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Quantum Corporation's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Quantum Corporation's patents?

Quantum Corporation's patents average 18.2 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 Quantum Corporation 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

Quantum Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 192 granted patents across 33 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Quantum ranks #2,066 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 192 patents across 33 technology areas.

#2,066
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.6/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2066 · US Corporation #2,066 · 192 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 192 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,066/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FMC
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FMC Technologies, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Uacj · near

57
Converse · near

57
Imagekeeper · near

57
Nuovo Pignone… · near

57
Quantum · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Quantum's Innovation Score is 56.6/100 (top 6% 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.

Where Quantum's grants concentrate

Quantum Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (25 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2015. By volume, Quantum sits between FMC Technologies, Inc. and Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd.

Quantum's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Quantum Corporation moved from 52 to 56 grants (1.08x 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 #1,008. See the growth leaderboard.

FMC

192
Interdigital Madi…

192
Line

192
Opple Lighting

192
Safran Helicopter…

192
Sagemcom Broadban…

192
Saint-gobain Abra…

192
Zhejiang Sunny Op…

192
Quantum ◀

192

What this shows Quantum holds 192 patents at rank #2,066, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Quantum

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,066 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L. 57 Converse Inc. 57 Imagekeeper LLC 57 Uacj Corporation 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Sleep Number Corporation 18.2 avg Dell Software Inc. 18.2 avg Eltek S.p.A. 18.2 avg Unify GmbH & Co. KG 18.2 avg

Quantum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Quantum Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	5.7%
2016	25	13.0%
2017	22	11.5%
2018	20	10.4%
2019	22	11.5%
2020	15	7.8%
2021	15	7.8%
2022	20	10.4%
2023	23	12.0%
2024	13	6.8%
2025partial year	6	3.1%

Which technologies does Quantum Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 128

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 46

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 35

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 18

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 14

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

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 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G11C - Static Stores 3

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

Top 15 of 33 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,066

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.6 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

Quantum Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Quantum Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #2,066 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Quantum Corporation against FMC Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.