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Innovation Score Explorer

Our Innovation Score blends four dimensions of a patent portfolio. Move the sliders to set your own weighting and watch the 150 largest US patent holders re-rank instantly.

150
Companies in play
4
Weighted dimensions
Live
Re-ranks as you drag

How to read it

At the default 40 / 20 / 25 / 15 weighting, raw portfolio volume dominates and the largest holder leads, but tilt the sliders toward velocity or claim depth and smaller, higher-quality filers like QUALCOMM climb the board.

85.4
highest published Innovation Score (QUALCOMM)
150
companies you can re-rank
4
weighted dimensions
Live
recomputes in your browser

How would you weight innovation?

Weights are normalized to 100%. Default reproduces PlainPatent's published Innovation Score.

Your ranking

Top 20 of 0

    Where the highest Innovation Score sits among all 50,000 assignees

    Innovation Score (0–100) across every tracked assignee, the giants in this tool occupy the far-right tail

    85 Top 1% higher than 99% of 50,000 US assignees

    0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). Below this entry. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Below this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). Below this entry. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Below this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Below this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). This entry sits in this band. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. Highest score 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

    Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

    Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

    Make it yours

    The default weighting favors volume, but the right weighting depends on the question you're asking.

    • Hunting fast-movers? Push velocity toward 100% to surface accelerating filers regardless of portfolio size.
    • Comparing R&D reach? Weight technology breadth to find who spreads widest across CPC classes.
    • Found a name worth a closer look? Open its full portfolio behind the score. Browse companies

    This explorer re-normalizes across the largest holders shown here, so it emphasizes relative standing within this group; the published Innovation Score normalizes across all assignees. Figures from USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents 2015–2025.

    How the explorer works

    Each company's four raw measurements, total US patents granted 2015–2025, filing velocity, the number of distinct CPC technology classes it patents in, and its average claims per patent, are normalized to a 0–100 scale across the 150 largest holders. The explorer then multiplies each normalized dimension by the weight you choose, sums them, and re-ranks. At the default weighting of 40% volume, 20% velocity, 25% breadth, and 15% depth, the explorer mirrors the same four-factor recipe behind the published Innovation Score - though because it normalizes only across the largest holders shown here (not all assignees), the order emphasizes relative standing within this group, so the volume-heavy default favors the biggest portfolios. Change the weights and you can ask different questions, for example, set velocity to 100% to surface the fastest-accelerating filers regardless of size. All figures come from the public USPTO PatentsView dataset; see our methodology for how each dimension is computed. The tool runs entirely in your browser, nothing you adjust is sent anywhere.

    Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.