Where does Yahoo Japan Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yahoo Japan Corporation ranks #2,260 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 Japan Corporation hold?

Yahoo Japan Corporation holds 174 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Yahoo Japan Corporation's Innovation Score?

Yahoo Japan Corporation has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Yahoo Japan Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yahoo Japan Corporation's recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Japan Corporation's patents?

Yahoo Japan Corporation's patents average 11.1 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 Japan Corporation 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 Foreign Corporation

Yahoo Japan Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Yahoo Japan Corporation focus on?

Yahoo Japan Corporation'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 65 patents, ranking #218 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 174 granted patents across 27 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yahoo ranks #2,260 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 174 patents across 27 technology areas.

#2,260
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 11.1
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2260 · Foreign Corporation #2,260 · 174 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 174 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,260/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SIG Sauer
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SIG Sauer 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 45.9 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 17.8 pts (39%) Velocity 3.0 pts (7%) Breadth 18.4 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lupin · near

46
Prospira · near

46
Medshine Discovery · near

46
Yahoo Japan · this assignee

46
Hunter Fan · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yahoo's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 11.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Yahoo's grants concentrate

Yahoo Japan Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 37.4% 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 2018 (36 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2024. By volume, Yahoo sits between SIG Sauer Inc. and Berry Plastics Corporation.

Yahoo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Yahoo Japan Corporation moved from 54 to 24 grants (0.44x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,802. See the growth leaderboard.

SIG Sauer

174
Stmicroelectronic…

174
Sumitomo Construc…

174
Valeo Equipements…

174
Yahoo Japan ◀

174
Bard Access Syste…

173
Beckhoff Automati…

173
Bell Sports

173
Berry Plastics

173

What this shows Yahoo holds 174 patents at rank #2,260, 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 #2,260 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 #218 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Medshine Discovery Inc. 46 Lupin Limited 46 Prospira Corporation 46 Hunter Fan Company 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.1 here).

Lotte Chemical Corporation 11.1 avg Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha 11.1 avg Anheuser-busch Inbev S.A. 11.1 avg C.R.F. Societa' Consortile PER Azioni 11.2 avg

Yahoo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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.

View data table

Yahoo Japan Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	3.4%
2016	33	19.0%
2017	19	10.9%
2018	36	20.7%
2019	36	20.7%
2020	5	2.9%
2021	13	7.5%
2022	9	5.2%
2023	11	6.3%
2024	4	2.3%
2025partial year	2	1.1%

Which technologies does Yahoo Japan Corporation 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 65

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 64

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 29

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 17

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 5

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

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

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 3

Top 15 of 27 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

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Yahoo Japan Corporation'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,), 37.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #2,260 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yahoo Japan Corporation against SIG Sauer Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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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