Where does Shutterfly, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shutterfly, LLC ranks #3,126 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 Shutterfly, LLC hold?

Shutterfly, LLC holds 121 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Shutterfly, LLC's Innovation Score?

Shutterfly, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.1 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Shutterfly, LLC focus on?

Shutterfly, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 85 patents, ranking #624 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shutterfly, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shutterfly, LLC's recent grant velocity is +11% 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 Shutterfly, LLC's patents?

Shutterfly, LLC's patents average 16.9 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 Shutterfly, 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

Shutterfly, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 121 granted patents across 23 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, Shutterfly ranks #3,126 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 121 patents across 23 technology areas.

#3,126
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.1/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3126 · US Corporation #3,126 · 121 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 121 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,126/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Purac Biochem BV
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Purac Biochem BV (±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 Shutterfly’s 48.1 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 16.6 pts (35%) Velocity 4.4 pts (9%) Breadth 17.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fabio Perini S p A · near

48
Groq · near

48
Guangzhou Shirui · near

48
Shutterfly · this assignee

48
THE Bank OF NEW… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shutterfly's Innovation Score is 48.1/100 (top 17% 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 Shutterfly?

Each dot is one of Shutterfly’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). Shutterfly’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Shutterfly's grants concentrate

Shutterfly, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 70.2% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (20 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2024. By volume, Shutterfly sits between Purac Biochem BV and GRG Banking Equipment Co., Ltd..

Shutterfly's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shutterfly, LLC moved from 44 to 29 grants (0.66x 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 #2,280. See the growth leaderboard.

Purac Biochem BV

121
Shinkawa

121
Sunrise Memory

121
Shukla Medical

121
Toshiba Lighting…

121
Shutterfly ◀

121
Atombeam

120
Edwards Japan

120
GRG Banking Equip…

120

What this shows Shutterfly holds 121 patents at rank #3,127, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shutterfly

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,127 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shutterfly, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Shutterfly ranks #624 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Guangzhou Shirui Electronics Co., Ltd. 48 THE Bank OF NEW York Mellon 48 Groq, Inc. 48 Fabio Perini S.p.A. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Federal-mogul Ignition GMBH 16.9 avg FuelCell Energy, Inc. 16.9 avg Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg Bedgear, LLC 16.9 avg

Shutterfly's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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

Shutterfly, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	9.1%
2016	12	9.9%
2017	15	12.4%
2018	9	7.4%
2019	10	8.3%
2020	20	16.5%
2021	14	11.6%
2022	9	7.4%
2023	13	10.7%
2024	7	5.8%
2025partial year	1	0.8%

Which technologies does Shutterfly, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 85

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 50

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 46

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 45

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 28

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 12

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 6

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 5

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 5

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

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

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

Top 15 of 23 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

Shutterfly, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shutterfly, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 70.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,126 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shutterfly, LLC against Purac Biochem BV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.1/100 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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