Where does Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC ranks #1,801 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 Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC hold?

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC holds 227 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's Innovation Score?

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's patents?

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's patents average 16.6 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 Western Digital (FREMONT), 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

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC

Q: What technology areas does Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC focus on?

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's top technology area is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer) with 211 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 227 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Western ranks #1,801 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 227 patents across 35 technology areas.

#1,801
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1801 · US Corporation #1,801 · 227 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 227 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,801/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ModernaTX
CPC-FOCUS G11B · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ModernaTX, Inc. (±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
Dongbu Daewoo · near

50
Management Services… · near

50
Universidade… · near

50
Utopus Insights · near

50
Western Digital… · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Western's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 Western's grants concentrate

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 93% of grants classified under G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (98 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2019. By volume, Western sits between ModernaTX, Inc. and SK Planet Co., Ltd..

Modernatx

227
Ningbo Sunny Opot…

227
Nasdaq

227
Sharp Display Tec…

227
Western Digital (… ◀

227
Atlas Copco Airpo…

226
Institut Pasteur

226
Parallels Interna…

226
SK Planet

226

What this shows Western holds 227 patents at rank #1,801, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Western

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,801 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Re…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Dongbu Daewoo Electronics Corporation 50 Utopus Insights, Inc. 50 Management Services Group, Inc. 50 Universidade Federal DE Minas Gerais 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

Wabash National, L.P. 16.6 avg Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited 16.6 avg Esaote S.p.A. 16.6 avg Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG 16.6 avg

Western's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	98	43.2%
2016	70	30.8%
2017	31	13.7%
2018	24	10.6%
2019	4	1.8%

Which technologies does Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC patent most?

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 211

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 38

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 13

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 10

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 7

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 6

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 5

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 5

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 3

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 3

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,801

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.6 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

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC's lead technology class is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer), 93% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G11B
Ranked #1,801 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Western Digital (FREMONT), LLC against ModernaTX, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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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