Where does ServiceNow, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ServiceNow, Inc. ranks #430 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 ServiceNow, Inc. hold?

ServiceNow, Inc. holds 1,052 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is ServiceNow, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

ServiceNow, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.6 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does ServiceNow, Inc. focus on?

ServiceNow, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 855 patents, ranking #99 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

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

ServiceNow, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +524% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

ServiceNow, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 ServiceNow, 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

ServiceNow, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,052 granted patents across 21 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, Servicenow ranks #430 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,052 patents across 21 technology areas.

#430
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.6/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +524%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R430 · US Corporation #430 · 1,052 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #430/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Duke University
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +524% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Duke University (±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 Servicenow’s 57.6 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 24.0 pts (42%) Velocity 5.8 pts (10%) Breadth 16.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Karl Storz Imaging · near

58
Nanotek Instruments… · near

58
Netflix · near

58
ServiceNow · this assignee

58
UWM Research… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Servicenow's Innovation Score is 57.6/100 (top 5% 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 Servicenow?

Each dot is one of Servicenow’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). Servicenow’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Servicenow's grants concentrate

ServiceNow, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 81.3% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (219 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Servicenow sits between Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and Avaya Inc..

Servicenow's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ServiceNow, Inc. moved from 509 to 441 grants (0.87x 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 #1,607. See the growth leaderboard.

Lawrence Livermor…

1,064
Zoox

1,064
Universal Display

1,058
RTX

1,055
Servicenow ◀

1,052
Duke University

1,050
University of Pit…

1,050
Largan Precision

1,046
Avaya

1,044

What this shows ServiceNow holds 1,052 patents at rank #430, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ServiceNow

By rank, the assignees closest to #430 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ServiceNow, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), ServiceNow ranks #99 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Netflix, Inc. 58 Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. 58 Nanotek Instruments Group, LLC 58 UWM Research Foundation, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

ZenPayroll, Inc. 19.3 avg Mitek Holdings, Inc. 19.3 avg EMC Corporation 19.3 avg Twilio Inc. 19.3 avg

Servicenow's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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ServiceNow, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.1%
2016	7	0.7%
2017	10	1.0%
2018	24	2.3%
2019	95	9.0%
2020	202	19.2%
2021	212	20.2%
2022	219	20.8%
2023	145	13.8%
2024	77	7.3%
2025partial year	60	5.7%

Which technologies does ServiceNow, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 855

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 607

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 206

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 119

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

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 28

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 20

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

H04M - Telephonic Communication 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

ServiceNow, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 81.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #430 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ServiceNow, Inc. against Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.6/100 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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