Where does Willow Garage, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Willow Garage, LLC ranks #15,055 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 Willow Garage, LLC hold?

Willow Garage, LLC holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Willow Garage, LLC's Innovation Score?

Willow Garage, LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.6 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Willow Garage, LLC focus on?

Willow Garage, LLC's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 12 patents, ranking #1,062 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Willow Garage, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Willow Garage, LLC's recent grant velocity is +750% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Willow Garage, LLC's patents?

Willow Garage, LLC's patents average 20.7 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 Willow Garage, 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

Willow Garage, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 6 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Willow ranks #15,055 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 6 technology areas.

#15,055
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.6/100): 20.7
avg claims per patent: +750%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15055 · US Corporation #15,055 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #15,055/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Wacker Neuson…
CPC-NARROW G06T · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +750% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Wacker Neuson Produktion GmbH & Co. (±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 Willow’s 51.6 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 10.5 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 8.7 pts (17%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Willow Garage · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Willow's Innovation Score is 51.6/100 (top 11% 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 Willow?

Each dot is one of Willow’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). Willow’s own 20.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Willow's grants concentrate

Willow Garage, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Willow sits between World Trend Enterprises Limited and Xjet Ltd..

Willow's three-year grant acceleration

Willow Garage, LLC shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

World Trend Enter…

20
Wacker Neuson Pro…

20
Wellis USA

20
Werlatone

20
Willow Laboratori…

20
Xenoport

20
Xi'an Novastar Te…

20
Xjet

20
Willow Garage ◀

20

What this shows Willow holds 20 patents at rank #15,051, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Willow

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,051 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Willow's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Willow Garage, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2016	1	5.0%
2020	1	5.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	5	25.0%
2023	5	25.0%
2024	5	25.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Willow Garage, LLC patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 8

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

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 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Willow Garage, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Willow Garage, LLC's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #15,055 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Willow Garage, LLC against World Trend Enterprises Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.6/100 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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