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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Verisign, Inc. ranks #1,315 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 Verisign, Inc. hold?

Verisign, Inc. holds 323 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Verisign, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Verisign, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Verisign, Inc. focus on?

Verisign, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 281 patents, ranking #161 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

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

Verisign, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Verisign, Inc.'s patents?

Verisign, Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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 Verisign, 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

Verisign, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 323 granted patents across 11 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Verisign ranks #1,315 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 323 patents across 11 technology areas.

#1,315
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1315 · US Corporation #1,315 · 323 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 323 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,315/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Crown Equipment
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Crown Equipment Corporation (±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 Verisign’s 48.0 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 20.0 pts (42%) Velocity 3.8 pts (8%) Breadth 11.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canon Finetech Nisca · near

48
Verisign · this assignee

48
Xyzprinting · near

48
Avid Technology · near

48
Primetals Germany · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Verisign's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Verisign?

Each dot is one of Verisign’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). Verisign’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Verisign's grants concentrate

Verisign, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 87% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (46 grants) versus a trough of 16 in 2024. By volume, Verisign sits between Crown Equipment Corporation and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Verisign's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Verisign, Inc. moved from 110 to 63 grants (0.57x 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 #2,515. See the growth leaderboard.

Crown Equipment

323
Rosemount

323
Trimble

323
VIA

323
Verisign ◀

323
Korea Institute O…

322
Karl Storz & KG

322
Linkedin

322
Tokyo Institute o…

322

What this shows Verisign holds 323 patents at rank #1,316, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Verisign

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,316 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Verisign, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Verisign ranks #161 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. 48 Xyzprinting, Inc. 48 Avid Technology, Inc. 48 Primetals Technologies Germany GMBH 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.9 here).

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 20.9 avg Transdermal Biotechnology, Inc. 20.9 avg STMicroelectronics Application GMBH 20.9 avg UiPath, Inc. 20.9 avg

Verisign's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Verisign, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	44	13.6%
2016	24	7.4%
2017	32	9.9%
2018	33	10.2%
2019	36	11.1%
2020	46	14.2%
2021	28	8.7%
2022	22	6.8%
2023	25	7.7%
2024	16	5.0%
2025partial year	17	5.3%

Which technologies does Verisign, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 281

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 144

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 31

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 21

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 11

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 11

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H04Q - Selecting 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

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

Verisign, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 87% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,315 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Verisign, Inc. against Crown Equipment Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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