Where does Zynga Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zynga Inc. ranks #1,082 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 Zynga Inc. hold?

Zynga Inc. holds 396 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Zynga Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Zynga Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Zynga Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Zynga Inc.'s patents?

Zynga Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Zynga 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

Zynga Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Zynga Inc. focus on?

Zynga Inc.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 269 patents, ranking #8 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 396 granted patents across 15 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Zynga ranks #1,082 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 396 patents across 15 technology areas.

#1,082
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1082 · US Corporation #1,082 · 396 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 396 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,082/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Digital Global Systems
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Digital Global Systems, 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 Zynga’s 48.0 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 20.7 pts (43%) Velocity 3.0 pts (6%) Breadth 13.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Koki · near

48
Leica Instruments… · near

48
Mitel Networks · near

48
The University of… · near

48
Zynga · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zynga's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Zynga?

Each dot is one of Zynga’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). Zynga’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Zynga's grants concentrate

Zynga Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 67.9% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (81 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2024. By volume, Zynga sits between Indiana University Research AND Technology Corporation and Fujitsu Component Limited.

Zynga's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zynga Inc. moved from 93 to 42 grants (0.45x 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 #2,790. See the growth leaderboard.

Indiana Universit…

399
Mstar Semiconduct…

399
Solaredge

399
Digital Global Sy…

396
Zynga ◀

396
Roche Molecular S…

395
Mueller Internati…

393
Commscope Connect…

392
Fujitsu Component

392

What this shows Zynga holds 396 patents at rank #1,082, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zynga

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,082 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zynga, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), Zynga ranks #8 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. 48 Mitel Networks Corporation 48 Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd 48 The University of Western Australia 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America 17.7 avg Bard Access Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. 17.7 avg The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology 17.7 avg

Zynga's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Zynga Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	58	14.6%
2016	81	20.5%
2017	74	18.7%
2018	45	11.4%
2019	49	12.4%
2020	23	5.8%
2021	21	5.3%
2022	16	4.0%
2023	16	4.0%
2024	10	2.5%
2025partial year	3	0.8%

Which technologies does Zynga Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 269

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 92

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 77

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 75

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 74

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 21

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 18

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

Top 15 of 15 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

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

Zynga Inc.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 67.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #1,082 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zynga Inc. against Indiana University Research AND Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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