Where does Walmart Apollo, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Walmart Apollo, LLC ranks #188 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 Walmart Apollo, LLC hold?

Walmart Apollo, LLC holds 2,112 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 177 technology areas.

What is Walmart Apollo, LLC's Innovation Score?

Walmart Apollo, LLC has an Innovation Score of 67.2 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Walmart Apollo, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Walmart Apollo, LLC's recent grant velocity is +144% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Walmart Apollo, LLC's patents?

Walmart Apollo, LLC's patents average 17.9 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 Walmart Apollo, 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

Walmart Apollo, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Walmart Apollo, LLC focus on?

Walmart Apollo, LLC's top technology area is 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) with 1,338 patents, ranking #14 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 177 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,112 granted patents across 177 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Walmart ranks #188 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,112 patents across 177 technology areas.

#188
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.2/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +144%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R188 · US Corporation #188 · 2,112 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #188/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH InterDigital Patent…
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 177 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +144% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (±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 Walmart’s 67.2 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 26.4 pts (39%) Velocity 5.0 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Braskem · near

67
GoPro · near

67
NXP B V · near

67
Semiconductor… · near

67
Walmart Apollo · this assignee

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Walmart's Innovation Score is 67.2/100 (top 1% 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 Walmart?

Each dot is one of Walmart’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). Walmart’s own 17.9 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.

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

How Walmart's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Walmart Apollo, LLC received 1,392 grants versus 570 in 2015–2019 (+144% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 427 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 143. Lead class G06Q accounts for 63.4% of the portfolio across 177 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Alcatel Lucent (#184) and Innolux Corporation (#192).

Walmart's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Walmart Apollo, LLC moved from 1,039 to 780 grants (0.75x 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 #1,980. See the growth leaderboard.

Alcatel Lucent

2,140
Shimadzu

2,128
Dolby Laboratorie…

2,118
Intuitive Surgica…

2,117
Walmart Apollo ◀

2,112
Interdigital Pate…

2,111
Milwaukee Electri…

2,095
Rovi Guides

2,091
Innolux

2,082

What this shows Walmart holds 2,112 patents at rank #188, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Walmart

By rank, the assignees closest to #188 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Walmart, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Walmart ranks #14 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC 67 NXP B.V. 67 GoPro, Inc. 67 Braskem S.A. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

The Regents of the University of California 17.9 avg Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd. 17.9 avg Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. 17.9 avg Business Objects Software Ltd. 17.9 avg

Walmart's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Walmart Apollo, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	143	6.8%
2019	427	20.2%
2020	373	17.7%
2021	239	11.3%
2022	218	10.3%
2023	276	13.1%
2024	286	13.5%
2025partial year	150	7.1%

Which technologies does Walmart Apollo, LLC patent most?

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 1,338

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 709

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 272

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 260

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 196

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 182

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 181

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 140

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 127

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 118

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 111

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 97

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 90

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 89

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 89

Top 15 of 177 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

Walmart Apollo, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Walmart Apollo, LLC's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 63.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #188 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Walmart Apollo, LLC against Alcatel Lucent, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.2/100 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

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