Where does Akamai Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Akamai Technologies, Inc. ranks #1,010 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 Akamai Technologies, Inc. hold?

Akamai Technologies, Inc. holds 434 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Akamai Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.0 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Akamai Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 408 patents, ranking #117 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

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

Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +48% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 14.1 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 Akamai Technologies, 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

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 434 granted patents across 23 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Akamai ranks #1,010 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 434 patents across 23 technology areas.

#1,010
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.0/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: +48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1010 · US Corporation #1,010 · 434 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 434 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,010/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Chiao Tung…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Chiao Tung University (±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 Akamai’s 52.0 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 21.0 pts (40%) Velocity 5.6 pts (11%) Breadth 17.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akamai · this assignee

52
Orbital Research · near

52
Somerset Therapeutics · near

52
Staples · near

52
SmartDrive Systems · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Akamai's Innovation Score is 52.0/100 (top 11% 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 Akamai?

Each dot is one of Akamai’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). Akamai’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Akamai's grants concentrate

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 94% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (63 grants) versus a trough of 16 in 2015. By volume, Akamai sits between Harris Corporation and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH.

Akamai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Akamai Technologies, Inc. moved from 155 to 130 grants (0.84x 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 #1,695. See the growth leaderboard.

Harris

437
Glaxosmithkline B…

436
Ferrari S p A

435
Hansgrohe SE

435
National Chiao Tu…

434
Panduit

434
Resmed

434
Akamai ◀

434
Airbus Defence an…

433

What this shows Akamai holds 434 patents at rank #1,010, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Akamai

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,010 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Akamai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Akamai ranks #117 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Orbital Research Inc. 52 Staples, Inc. 52 Somerset Therapeutics, LLC 52 SmartDrive Systems, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

thyssenkrupp AG 14.1 avg NEC Laboratories America, Inc. 14.1 avg Delphi Technologies IP Limited 14.1 avg Tsinghua University 14.1 avg

Akamai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Akamai Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	3.7%
2016	27	6.2%
2017	47	10.8%
2018	36	8.3%
2019	40	9.2%
2020	63	14.5%
2021	52	12.0%
2022	44	10.1%
2023	54	12.4%
2024	32	7.4%
2025partial year	23	5.3%

Which technologies does Akamai Technologies, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 408

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 133

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 51

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 39

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

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 21

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 4

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 3

F16H - Gearing 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

Top 15 of 23 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

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

Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 94% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,010 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Akamai Technologies, Inc. against Harris Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.0/100 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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