Data Integration & ETL Patents: Who Is Filing, and Where the Field Is Still Open
Filings nearly doubled from 2021 to 2024, rising 555 to 1,064 (+92%), with 2025 marking the peak year so far at 1,190 published records. Annual filings climbed from 295 in 2017 to a documented +92% jump between 2021 (555) and 2024 (1,064), before reaching a peak of 1,190 in 2025. The 2026 figure of 281 is partial and will rise as later publications land; treat the last one to two years as incomplete rather than as a slowdown.
- 1CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC5.3%
- 2STRONG FORCE IOT PORTFOLIO 2016 LLC5.2%
- 3INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION3.7%
- 4SAP SE2.1%
- 5ORACLE INT CORP2.0%
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- The complete ranking, not just the top five
- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions about this landscape
Who are the leading patent holders in data integration and ETL technology?
The ranked list covers 100 assignees, led by a single company with 444 records, well ahead of fifth place at 166 and tenth place at 110. The top 10 combined hold 2,130 records, which is 25.3% of the 8,407 records in scope, meaning three-quarters of the field sits with companies outside that top group. The mix includes large enterprise software vendors alongside narrower filers built around a small cluster of related families, so leadership by volume does not necessarily mean leadership across every technical sub-area.
Is the data integration and ETL patent field growing or slowing down?
It is growing. Published filings rose from 555 in 2021 to 1,064 in 2024, a 92% increase over that three-year span, and 2025 reached a further peak of 1,190 records. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the 2025 and 2026 figures are still incomplete and should not be read as a plateau or decline — they will revise upward as more filings publish.
Which technology areas dominate ETL and data integration filings?
G06F, covering electric digital data processing, appears in 63.2% of the 8,407 records and is the dominant class. G06Q (business and commerce data processing, 27.6%), H04L (digital information transmission, 20.8%) and G06N (AI-based computing, 20.6%) follow as substantial overlapping categories, showing that most filings blend core data-processing claims with business logic, networking or AI-model elements rather than sitting in a single narrow class.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Data Integration & ETL Patent Landscape covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-08-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.