Where does Symantec Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Symantec Corporation ranks #346 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 Symantec Corporation hold?

Symantec Corporation holds 1,244 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Symantec Corporation's Innovation Score?

Symantec Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Symantec Corporation focus on?

Symantec Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 884 patents, ranking #95 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Symantec Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Symantec Corporation's recent grant velocity is -98% 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 Symantec Corporation's patents?

Symantec Corporation'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 Symantec Corporation 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

Symantec Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,244 granted patents across 36 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Symantec ranks #346 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,244 patents across 36 technology areas.

#346
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: -98%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R346 · US Corporation #346 · 1,244 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #346/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FCA US
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -98% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FCA US LLC. (±1 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 Symantec’s 56.9 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 24.6 pts (43%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 21.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sentera · near

57
SNU R&DB Foundation · near

57
Symantec · this assignee

57
Unicharm · near

57
Cheng UEI Precision… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Symantec's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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 Symantec?

Each dot is one of Symantec’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). Symantec’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Symantec's grants concentrate

Symantec Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 71.1% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (426 grants) versus a trough of 20 in 2020. By volume, Symantec sits between Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha and Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc..

Terumo

1,250
Empire Technology…

1,248
Merck Sharp & Doh…

1,248
Synopsys

1,245
Symantec ◀

1,244
FCA US

1,243
Philip Morris Pro…

1,240
HKC

1,232
Warsaw Orthopedic

1,232

What this shows Symantec holds 1,244 patents at rank #346, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Symantec

By rank, the assignees closest to #346 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Symantec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Symantec ranks #95 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Unicharm Corporation 57 SNU R&DB Foundation 57 Sentera, Inc. 57 Cheng UEI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

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

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited 18.5 avg Citibank, N.A. 18.5 avg Elan Microelectronics Corporation 18.5 avg Allen Medical Systems, Inc. 18.5 avg

Symantec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Symantec Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	426	34.2%
2016	221	17.8%
2017	220	17.7%
2018	149	12.0%
2019	208	16.7%
2020	20	1.6%

Which technologies does Symantec Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 884

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 700

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 139

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 73

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 51

H04M - Telephonic Communication 17

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

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 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

H04B - Transmission 6

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 5

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 5

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

Top 15 of 36 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

Symantec Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Symantec Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 71.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #346 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Symantec Corporation against Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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