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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zillow, Inc. ranks #6,100 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 Zillow, Inc. hold?

Zillow, Inc. holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Zillow, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Zillow, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.6 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Zillow, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +422% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Zillow, Inc.'s patents average 25.4 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 Zillow, 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

Zillow, Inc.

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

Zillow, 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 26 patents, ranking #520 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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, Zillow ranks #6,100 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 11 technology areas.

#6,100
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.6/100): 25.4
avg claims per patent: +422%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6100 · US Corporation #6,100 · 56 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,100/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH thyssenkrupp Uhde
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +422% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (±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 Zillow’s 47.6 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 14.0 pts (29%) Velocity 6.9 pts (14%) Breadth 11.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Infinitum Electric · near

48
MiMedx Group · near

48
Mitsubishi Electric… · near

48
Toshiba Lifestyle… · near

48
Zillow · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zillow's Innovation Score is 47.6/100 (top 18% 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 Zillow?

Each dot is one of Zillow’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). Zillow’s own 25.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Zillow's grants concentrate

Zillow, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 46.4% 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 2022 (27 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Zillow sits between Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd. and AG 18, LLC.

Zillow's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zillow, Inc. moved from 26 to 27 grants (1.04x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Yamaichi

56
Zhejiang Huahai P…

56
Zenpayroll

56
Zhongshan Innoclo…

56
Zonit Structured…

56
thyssenkrupp Uhde

56
ubeam

56
Zillow ◀

56
18

55

What this shows Zillow holds 56 patents at rank #6,098, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zillow

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,098 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation 48 Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited 48 MiMedx Group, Inc. 48 Infinitum Electric Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (25.4 here).

Mattersight Corporation 25.4 avg Liveperson, Inc. 25.4 avg Route 92 Medical, Inc. 25.4 avg Radian Memory Systems, Illc 25.3 avg

Zillow's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Zillow, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.8%
2017	1	1.8%
2018	1	1.8%
2019	6	10.7%
2020	9	16.1%
2021	11	19.6%
2022	27	48.2%

Which technologies does Zillow, 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 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 20

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 18

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 14

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 6

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

Top 11 of 11 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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Zillow, 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,), 46.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #6,100 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zillow, Inc. against Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.6/100 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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