Where does Yahoo Holdings, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yahoo Holdings, Inc. ranks #748 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 Holdings, Inc. hold?

Yahoo Holdings, Inc. holds 611 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Yahoo Holdings, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.0 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Yahoo Holdings, Inc. focus on?

Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 406 patents, ranking #181 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'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 Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'s patents?

Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 Yahoo Holdings, Inc. 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 Holdings, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 611 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yahoo ranks #748 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 611 patents across 32 technology areas.

#748
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.0/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R748 · US Corporation #748 · 611 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 611 grants
TOP-DECILE #748/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Allergan
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Allergan, 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 Yahoo’s 54.0 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 22.2 pts (41%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 20.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AmTRAN Technology · near

54
Indian Motorcycle… · near

54
Safran Aero Boosters · near

54
Walbro · near

54
Yahoo Holdings · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yahoo's Innovation Score is 54.0/100 (top 8% 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 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 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 Holdings, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 66.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (247 grants) versus a trough of 27 in 2018. By volume, Yahoo sits between Dexerials Corporation and Oki Data Corporation.

Dexerials

614
Allergan

612
Ford Motor

612
Spectrum Brands

612
Yahoo Holdings ◀

611
Renault S

610
Roche Diabetes Ca…

610
SK Innovation

610
Oki Data

609

What this shows Yahoo holds 611 patents at rank #748, 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 #748 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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 G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Yahoo ranks #181 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Safran Aero Boosters 54 Walbro LLC 54 AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. 54 Indian Motorcycle International, LLC 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Aruba Networks, Inc. 19.7 avg Oceanit Laboratories, Inc. 19.7 avg Netflix, Inc. 19.7 avg Cellco Partnership 19.7 avg

Yahoo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Yahoo Holdings, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	247	40.4%
2016	191	31.3%
2017	146	23.9%
2018	27	4.4%

Which technologies does Yahoo Holdings, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 406

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 205

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 178

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 64

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 50

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 31

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 31

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 23

H04M - Telephonic Communication 23

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 19

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 13

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 8

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 6

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 6

H04H - Broadcast Communication 5

Top 15 of 32 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

Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yahoo Holdings, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 66.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #748 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yahoo Holdings, Inc. against Dexerials Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.0/100 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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