Where does Trend Micro Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trend Micro Incorporated ranks #1,465 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 Trend Micro Incorporated hold?

Trend Micro Incorporated holds 284 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Trend Micro Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Trend Micro Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 47.7 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Trend Micro Incorporated focus on?

Trend Micro Incorporated's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 192 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Trend Micro Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Trend Micro Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Trend Micro Incorporated's patents?

Trend Micro Incorporated's patents average 14.9 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 Trend Micro Incorporated 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 Foreign Corporation

Trend Micro Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 284 granted patents across 17 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, Trend ranks #1,465 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 284 patents across 17 technology areas.

#1,465
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.7/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1465 · Foreign Corporation #1,465 · 284 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 284 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,465/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Conair
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Conair LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bushnell · near

48
Lmpg · near

48
nChain Holdings · near

48
Trend Micro… · this assignee

48
Scientific Drilling… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trend's Innovation Score is 47.7/100 (top 18% 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.

Where Trend's grants concentrate

Trend Micro Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 67.6% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (54 grants) versus a trough of 12 in 2024. By volume, Trend sits between Conair LLC and Firmenich SA.

Trend's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Trend Micro Incorporated moved from 75 to 53 grants (0.71x 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 #2,127. See the growth leaderboard.

Conair

284
L&P Property Mana…

284
Sivantos Pte

284
Toshiba Infrastru…

284
Xiamen ECO Lighti…

284
Trend Micro Incor… ◀

284
AMO Development

283
Ab Initio Technol…

283
Firmenich

283

What this shows Trend holds 284 patents at rank #1,465, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trend

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,465 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Trend, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Bushnell Inc. 48 nChain Holdings Ltd 48 Lmpg Inc. 48 Scientific Drilling International, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L. 14.9 avg Silicon Motion, Inc. 14.9 avg Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg Transitions Optical, Ltd. 14.9 avg

Trend's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Trend Micro Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	54	19.0%
2016	44	15.5%
2017	24	8.5%
2018	23	8.1%
2019	24	8.5%
2020	21	7.4%
2021	30	10.6%
2022	25	8.8%
2023	16	5.6%
2024	12	4.2%
2025partial year	11	3.9%

Which technologies does Trend Micro Incorporated patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 192

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 188

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 25

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 24

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

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 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

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

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

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

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,465

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Trend Micro Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trend Micro Incorporated's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 67.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,465 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trend Micro Incorporated against Conair LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.7/100 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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