Where does Yahoo Ad Tech LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yahoo Ad Tech LLC ranks #2,468 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 Yahoo Ad Tech LLC hold?

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC holds 159 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Yahoo Ad Tech LLC's Innovation Score?

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC has an Innovation Score of 62.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Yahoo Ad Tech LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Yahoo Ad Tech LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Yahoo Ad Tech LLC's patents?

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC's patents average 19.3 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 Yahoo Ad Tech 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

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC

Q: What technology areas does Yahoo Ad Tech LLC focus on?

Yahoo Ad Tech 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 106 patents, ranking #141 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 159 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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,).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yahoo ranks #2,468 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 159 patents across 14 technology areas.

#2,468
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.4/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2468 · US Corporation #2,468 · 159 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 159 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,468/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Simmonds Precision…
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 14 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Simmonds Precision Products, 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.

How Yahoo’s 62.4 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 17.5 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (32%) Breadth 13.2 pts (21%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Westinghouse Air Brake · near

62
Nitto Denko · near

62
University of… · near

62
Yahoo Ad Tech · this assignee

62
8 Rivers Capital · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yahoo's Innovation Score is 62.4/100 (top 2% 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 Yahoo?

Each dot is one of Yahoo’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). Yahoo’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Yahoo's grants concentrate

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (59 grants) versus a trough of 31 in 2022. By volume, Yahoo sits between Simmonds Precision Products, Inc. and Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd..

Yahoo's three-year grant acceleration

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC shows 134 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Simmonds Precisio…

159
THE Glad Products

159
Touchtunes Music

159
UDC Ireland

159
Yahoo Ad Tech ◀

159
Akebono Brake Ind…

158
C R F Societa' Co…

158
Docusign

158
Doosan Enerbility

158

What this shows Yahoo holds 159 patents at rank #2,468, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Yahoo

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,468 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Yahoo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Yahoo ranks #141 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

University of Science and Technology Beijing 62 Nitto Denko Corporation 62 Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation 62 8 Rivers Capital, LLC 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Allison Transmission, Inc. 19.3 avg Senseware, Inc. 19.3 avg Carbon, Inc. 19.3 avg Fyusion, Inc. 19.4 avg

Yahoo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	31	19.5%
2023	44	27.7%
2024	59	37.1%
2025partial year	25	15.7%

Which technologies does Yahoo Ad Tech 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 106

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 63

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 53

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 26

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

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

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Yahoo Ad Tech LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yahoo Ad Tech 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,), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,468 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yahoo Ad Tech LLC against Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.4/100 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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