Where does Symbotic LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Symbotic LLC ranks #2,102 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 Symbotic LLC hold?

Symbotic LLC holds 188 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Symbotic LLC's Innovation Score?

Symbotic LLC has an Innovation Score of 57.0 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%).

Is Symbotic LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Symbotic LLC's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Symbotic LLC's patents?

Symbotic LLC's patents average 20.3 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 Symbotic 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

Symbotic LLC

Q: What technology areas does Symbotic LLC focus on?

Symbotic LLC's top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 174 patents, ranking #7 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 188 granted patents across 32 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Symbotic ranks #2,102 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 188 patents across 32 technology areas.

#2,102
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2102 · US Corporation #2,102 · 188 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 188 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,102/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fujimi Incorporated
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fujimi Incorporated (±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 Symbotic’s 57.0 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 18.1 pts (32%) Velocity 6.8 pts (12%) Breadth 20.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Baoshan Iron & Steel · near

57
Hytto PTE · near

57
Kardion · near

57
Symbotic · this assignee

57
Specialized Bicycle… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Symbotic's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (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 Symbotic?

Each dot is one of Symbotic’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). Symbotic’s own 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Symbotic's grants concentrate

Symbotic LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 92.6% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (24 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2021. By volume, Symbotic sits between Fujimi Incorporated and Widex A/S.

Symbotic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Symbotic LLC moved from 52 to 53 grants (1.02x 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 #1,135. See the growth leaderboard.

Fujimi Incorporat…

188
Hamilton Beach Br…

188
Nanning Fugui Pre…

188
Starbucks

188
The Royal Institu…

188
VIB VZW

188
Visteon Global

188
Widex A/S

188
Symbotic ◀

188

What this shows Symbotic holds 188 patents at rank #2,102, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Symbotic

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,102 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Symbotic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices), Symbotic ranks #7 of 1,746 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. 57 Hytto PTE. Ltd. 57 Kardion GMBH 57 Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.3 here).

Bentley Systems, Incorporated 20.3 avg Analog Devices International Unlimited Company 20.3 avg Polaris Wireless, Inc. 20.3 avg Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc. 20.3 avg

Symbotic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 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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Symbotic LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	5.9%
2016	13	6.9%
2017	15	8.0%
2018	18	9.6%
2019	24	12.8%
2020	20	10.6%
2021	8	4.3%
2022	12	6.4%
2023	19	10.1%
2024	22	11.7%
2025partial year	26	13.8%

Which technologies does Symbotic LLC patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 174

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 66

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 35

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 30

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 26

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 14

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 13

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 10

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 10

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 9

B60S - Servicing, Cleaning, Repairing, Supporting, Lifting, OR Manoeuvring OF Vehicles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 4

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

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 3

Top 15 of 32 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

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Symbotic LLC's lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 92.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #2,102 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Symbotic LLC against Fujimi Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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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