Where does Snap Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Snap Inc. ranks #109 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 Snap Inc. hold?

Snap Inc. holds 3,345 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 120 technology areas.

What is Snap Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Snap Inc. has an Innovation Score of 82.3 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 Snap Inc. focus on?

Snap Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,857 patents, ranking #41 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 120 CPC subclasses total.

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

Snap Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +944% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Snap Inc.'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 Snap 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

Snap Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,345 granted patents across 120 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Snap ranks #109 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,345 patents across 120 technology areas.

#109
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (82.3/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +944%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R109 · US Corporation #109 · 3,345 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 3.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #109/49,997
NEAR-PEER Boston Scientific…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 120 areas
INNOV-ELITE 82.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +944% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (±16 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 Snap’s 82.3 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 28.0 pts (34%) Velocity 18.2 pts (22%) Breadth 25.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Snap · this assignee

82
Cilag International · near

82
Kioxia · near

82
Taiwan Semiconductor… · near

82
KIA · near

81
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Snap's Innovation Score is 82.3/100 (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 Snap?

Each dot is one of Snap’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). Snap’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Snap's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Snap Inc. received 2,505 grants versus 240 in 2015–2019 (+944% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 776 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 2. Lead class G06F accounts for 55.5% of the portfolio across 120 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (#105) and Nippon Telegraph AND Telephone Corporation (#113).

Snap's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Snap Inc. moved from 708 to 1,931 grants (2.73x 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 #101. See the growth leaderboard.

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
Toshiba TEC

3,280
Nippon Telegraph…

3,279

What this shows Snap holds 3,345 patents at rank #109, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Snap

By rank, the assignees closest to #109 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Snap, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Snap ranks #41 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (82 here).

Cilag GmbH International 82 Kioxia Corporation 82 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. 82 KIA Corporation 81

Similar claim depth

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

HRL Laboratories, LLC 18.5 avg Flextronics AP, LLC 18.5 avg Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation 18.5 avg Galderma Research & Development 18.5 avg

Snap's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

82 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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Snap Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	0.1%
2017	42	1.3%
2018	62	1.9%
2019	134	4.0%
2020	210	6.3%
2021	364	10.9%
2022	459	13.7%
2023	696	20.8%
2024	776	23.2%
2025partial year	600	17.9%

Which technologies does Snap Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,857

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1,354

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,215

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 744

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 686

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 492

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 453

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 413

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 293

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 212

H04M - Telephonic Communication 148

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 132

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 119

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 115

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 111

Top 15 of 120 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

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

Snap Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 55.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #109 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Snap Inc. against Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 82.3/100 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.