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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SuccessFactors, Inc. ranks #4,647 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 SuccessFactors, Inc. hold?

SuccessFactors, Inc. holds 76 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is SuccessFactors, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

SuccessFactors, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does SuccessFactors, Inc. focus on?

SuccessFactors, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 57 patents, ranking #868 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

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

SuccessFactors, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -85% 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 SuccessFactors, Inc.'s patents?

SuccessFactors, 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 SuccessFactors, 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

SuccessFactors, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 76 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Successfactors ranks #4,647 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 76 patents across 11 technology areas.

#4,647
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -85%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4647 · US Corporation #4,647 · 76 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 76 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,647/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Scientific Games…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -85% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scientific Games International, Inc. (±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 Successfactors’s 37.8 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 15.0 pts (40%) Velocity 0.2 pts (1%) Breadth 11.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Santoku · near

38
SuccessFactors · this assignee

38
Think Laboratory · near

38
TQ Delta · near

38
Xiamen Soothingware… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Successfactors's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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 Successfactors?

Each dot is one of Successfactors’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). Successfactors’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Successfactors's grants concentrate

SuccessFactors, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Successfactors sits between Sunnybrook Research Institute and Valeo Comfort AND Driving Assistance.

Successfactors's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, SuccessFactors, Inc. moved from 27 to 1 grants (0.04x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Sunnybrook Resear…

76
Scientific Games…

76
Smart Wires

76
Sterlite

76
Technological Res…

76
Toda Kogyo

76
University OF Uls…

76
Valeo Comfort AND…

76
Successfactors ◀

76

What this shows SuccessFactors holds 76 patents at rank #4,648, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SuccessFactors

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,648 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SuccessFactors, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), SuccessFactors ranks #868 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

TQ Delta, LLC 38 Santoku Corporation 38 Xiamen Soothingware Sanitary Co., Ltd. 38 Think Laboratory Co., Ltd. 38

Similar claim depth

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

Institut National D'optique 18.1 avg Innospec Limited 18.1 avg Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. 18.1 avg Entellus Medical, Inc. 18.1 avg

Successfactors's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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SuccessFactors, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	5.3%
2016	11	14.5%
2017	19	25.0%
2018	14	18.4%
2019	18	23.7%
2020	8	10.5%
2021	1	1.3%
2022	1	1.3%

Which technologies does SuccessFactors, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 57

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 21

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 18

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

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

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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

SuccessFactors, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,647 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SuccessFactors, Inc. against Sunnybrook Research Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.8/100 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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