Overall rank by patents
#1,377
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 305 granted patents across 17 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Yahoo ranks #1,377 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 305 patents across 17 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R1377 · US Corporation #1,377 · 305 grants
GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH
Nearest grant-volume peer: Max Co., Ltd. (±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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Tyco Fire Products · near
66 score
Assa Abloy Entrance… · near
66 score
Pixart Imaging · near
66 score
Yahoo Assets · this assignee
66 score
Alarm com Incorporated · near
66 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Yahoo's Innovation Score is 65.9/100 (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.
Yahoo Assets LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 73.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (88 grants) versus a trough of 81 in 2022. By volume, Yahoo sits between STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited and Pacific Biosciences OF California, Inc..
Yahoo Assets LLC shows 254 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.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
306 patents
Max Co., Ltd.
305 patents
Nihon Kohden Corporation
305 patents
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
305 patents
Yandex Europe AG
305 patents
Yahoo Assets LLC
305 patents
Avent, Inc.
304 patents
Keyence Corporation
304 patents
Pacific Biosciences OF California, Inc.
304 patents
What this shows Yahoo holds 305 patents at rank #1,377, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #1,377 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in Yahoo's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Yahoo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).
Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).
Yahoo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 81 | 26.6% |
| 2023 | 88 | 28.9% |
| 2024 | 85 | 27.9% |
| 2025partial year | 51 | 16.7% |
Top 15 of 17 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#1,377
of 49,997 tracked assignees
65.9 out of 100
What to do with this data
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Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.
Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.