Where does Salesforce.com, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Salesforce.com, Inc. ranks #135 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 Salesforce.com, Inc. hold?

Salesforce.com, Inc. holds 2,773 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is Salesforce.com, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Salesforce.com, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.9 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 Salesforce.com, Inc. focus on?

Salesforce.com, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 2,202 patents, ranking #32 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

Is Salesforce.com, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Salesforce.com, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +25% 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 Salesforce.com, Inc.'s patents?

Salesforce.com, Inc.'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 Salesforce.com, 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

Salesforce.com, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,773 granted patents across 46 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, Salesforce.com ranks #135 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,773 patents across 46 technology areas.

#135
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.9/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R135 · US Corporation #135 · 2,773 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #135/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Wells Fargo Bank N A
CPC-WIDE G06F · 46 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (±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 Salesforce.com’s 64.9 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 27.4 pts (42%) Velocity 2.7 pts (4%) Breadth 24.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dolby Laboratories… · near

65
Mako Surgical · near

65
Regents of the… · near

65
Salesforce com · this assignee

65
STMicroelectronics… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Salesforce.com's Innovation Score is 64.9/100 (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 Salesforce.com?

Each dot is one of Salesforce.com’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). Salesforce.com’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Salesforce.com's grants concentrate

Salesforce.com, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 79.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (519 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2024. By volume, Salesforce.com sits between Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. and Audi AG.

Salesforce.com's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Salesforce.com, Inc. moved from 1,344 to 536 grants (0.40x 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 #2,877. See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Xiaomi Mo…

2,840
Comcast Cable Com…

2,828
Sony Semiconducto…

2,791
NXP B V

2,783
Wells Fargo Bank…

2,773
Salesforce com ◀

2,773
Fraunhofer-gesell…

2,763
Rohm

2,753
Audi

2,738

What this shows Salesforce.com holds 2,773 patents at rank #135, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Salesforcecom

By rank, the assignees closest to #135 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Salesforcecom, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Salesforcecom ranks #32 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation 65 Regents of the University of Minnesota 65 Mako Surgical Corp. 65 STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 65

Similar claim depth

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

Saint-gobain Glass France 18.1 avg Commonwealth Scientific AND Industrial Research Organisation 18.1 avg Welltec A/S 18.1 avg Sony Electronics Inc. 18.1 avg

Salesforce.com'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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Salesforce.com, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	193	7.0%
2016	241	8.7%
2017	242	8.7%
2018	216	7.8%
2019	341	12.3%
2020	484	17.5%
2021	519	18.7%
2022	386	13.9%
2023	143	5.2%
2024	7	0.3%
2025partial year	1	0.0%

Which technologies does Salesforce.com, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2,202

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,073

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 529

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 295

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 129

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 57

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 53

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 40

H04M - Telephonic Communication 40

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 25

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 20

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 15

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 10

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

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

Top 15 of 46 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

Salesforce.com, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Salesforce.com, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 79.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #135 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Salesforce.com, Inc. against Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.9/100 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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