Where does Seagate Technology LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Seagate Technology LLC ranks #107 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 Seagate Technology LLC hold?

Seagate Technology LLC holds 3,383 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 169 technology areas.

What is Seagate Technology LLC's Innovation Score?

Seagate Technology LLC has an Innovation Score of 67.8 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%).

Is Seagate Technology LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Seagate Technology LLC's recent grant velocity is -51% 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 Seagate Technology LLC's patents?

Seagate Technology LLC's patents average 18.5 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 Seagate Technology LLC 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

Seagate Technology LLC

Q: What technology areas does Seagate Technology LLC focus on?

Seagate Technology LLC's top technology area is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer) with 1,922 patents. Grants appear in 169 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,383 granted patents across 169 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: G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Seagate ranks #107 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,383 patents across 169 technology areas.

#107
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.8/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: -51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R107 · US Corporation #107 · 3,383 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #107/49,997
NEAR-PEER Boston Scientific…
CPC-WIDE G11B · 169 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (±22 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
Analog Devices · near

68
The ADT Security · near

68
Seagate Technology · this assignee

68
Qingdao University… · near

68
HKC · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Seagate's Innovation Score is 67.8/100 (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.

How Seagate's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Seagate Technology LLC received 1,093 grants versus 2,250 in 2015–2019 (-51% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 504 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 100. Lead class G11B accounts for 56.8% of the portfolio across 169 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (HSC) (#103) and Illinois Tool Works Inc. (#111).

Seagate's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Seagate Technology LLC moved from 961 to 520 grants (0.54x 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 #2,592. See the growth leaderboard.

Hamilton Sundstra…

3,501
Corning Incorpora…

3,494
Nissan Motor

3,456
Whirlpool

3,434
Seagate Technology ◀

3,383
Boston Scientific…

3,361
Snap

3,345
United States of…

3,298
Illinois Tool Wor…

3,292

What this shows Seagate holds 3,383 patents at rank #107, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Seagate

By rank, the assignees closest to #107 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Re…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

The ADT Security Corporation 68 Analog Devices, Inc. 68 Qingdao University OF Technology 68 HKC Corporation Limited 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

Tencent America LLC 18.5 avg OneTrust, LLC 18.5 avg CGG Services SAS 18.5 avg Rapid7, Inc. 18.5 avg

Seagate's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 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.

View data table

Seagate Technology LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	501	14.8%
2016	504	14.9%
2017	458	13.5%
2018	399	11.8%
2019	388	11.5%
2020	321	9.5%
2021	252	7.4%
2022	247	7.3%
2023	173	5.1%
2024	100	3.0%
2025partial year	40	1.2%

Which technologies does Seagate Technology LLC patent most?

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1,922

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,189

G11C - Static Stores 312

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 213

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 176

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 139

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 128

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 84

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 80

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 80

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 63

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 63

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 62

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 54

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 43

Top 15 of 169 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#107

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

67.8 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

Seagate Technology LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Seagate Technology LLC's lead technology class is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer), 56.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G11B
Ranked #107 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Seagate Technology LLC against Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (HSC), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.8/100 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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