Where does Zendesk, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zendesk, Inc. ranks #12,319 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 Zendesk, Inc. hold?

Zendesk, Inc. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Zendesk, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Zendesk, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.7 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Zendesk, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +375% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Zendesk, Inc.'s patents?

Zendesk, Inc.'s patents average 22.5 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 Zendesk, 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

Zendesk, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Zendesk, Inc. focus on?

Zendesk, Inc.'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 14 patents, ranking #913 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 5 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, Zendesk ranks #12,319 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 5 technology areas.

#12,319
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.7/100): 22.5
avg claims per patent: +375%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12319 · US Corporation #12,319 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,319/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH eSight
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +375% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: eSight Corp. (±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 Zendesk’s 38.7 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 11.3 pts (29%) Velocity 6.1 pts (16%) Breadth 7.9 pts (20%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cardex Systems · near

39
Cour Pharmaceuticals… · near

39
Innovative Building · near

39
Rhodes · near

39
Zendesk · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zendesk's Innovation Score is 38.7/100 (top 40% 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 Zendesk?

Each dot is one of Zendesk’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). Zendesk’s own 22.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Zendesk's grants concentrate

Zendesk, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 56% 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 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Zendesk sits between Zenith Epigenetics Ltd. and eSight Corp..

Zendesk's three-year grant acceleration

Zendesk, Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Zenith Epigenetics

25
Zhejiang Jiecang…

25
Zora Biosciences…

25
ZPE Systems

25
Zero Friction

25
Zipline Medical

25
Zodiac Seats Fran…

25
esight

25
Zendesk ◀

25

What this shows Zendesk holds 25 patents at rank #12,319, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zendesk

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,319 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zendesk, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Zendesk ranks #913 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Innovative Building Technologies, LLC 39 Rhodes Technologies 39 Cardex Systems Inc. 39 Cour Pharmaceuticals Development Company Inc. 39

Zendesk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% 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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Zendesk, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.0%
2018	1	4.0%
2019	2	8.0%
2020	5	20.0%
2021	4	16.0%
2022	6	24.0%
2023	3	12.0%
2024	1	4.0%
2025partial year	2	8.0%

Which technologies does Zendesk, Inc. 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 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

Top 5 of 5 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

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

Zendesk, Inc.'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,), 56% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #12,319 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zendesk, Inc. against Zenith Epigenetics Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.7/100 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

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