Where does Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. ranks #4,184 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 Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. hold?

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. holds 85 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 43.5 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. focus on?

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 72 patents, ranking #712 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s patents?

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s patents average 20.2 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 Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 85 granted patents across 10 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bitdefender ranks #4,184 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 85 patents across 10 technology areas.

#4,184
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.5/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4184 · Foreign Corporation #4,184 · 85 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 85 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,184/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avalara
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avalara, 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 Bitdefender’s 43.5 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 15.4 pts (35%) Velocity 4.8 pts (11%) Breadth 11.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bitdefender IPR… · this assignee

43
Brio Water Technology · near

43
Butamax Advanced… · near

43
Juki · near

43
W Schonbek · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bitdefender's Innovation Score is 43.5/100 (top 28% 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 Bitdefender?

Each dot is one of Bitdefender’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). Bitdefender’s own 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bitdefender's grants concentrate

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 84.7% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Bitdefender sits between Avalara, Inc. and Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc..

Bitdefender's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. moved from 21 to 15 grants (0.71x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Avalara

85
Beijing Jingdong…

85
Biomarin Pharmace…

85
Boehringer Ingelh…

85
Changzhou Univers…

85
Chemetall

85
Construction Rese…

85
Cooper-standard A…

85
Bitdefender IPR M… ◀

85

What this shows Bitdefender holds 85 patents at rank #4,185, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bitdefender

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,185 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bitdefender, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Bitdefender ranks #712 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC 43 Brio Water Technology, Inc. 43 Juki Corporation 43 W Schonbek LLC 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.2 here).

The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research 20.2 avg eldoLAB Holding B.V. 20.2 avg HYDRO-QUÉBEC 20.2 avg Mobileiron, Inc. 20.2 avg

Bitdefender's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	11.8%
2016	14	16.5%
2017	9	10.6%
2018	11	12.9%
2019	8	9.4%
2020	7	8.2%
2021	6	7.1%
2022	3	3.5%
2023	11	12.9%
2024	1	1.2%
2025partial year	5	5.9%

Which technologies does Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 72

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 46

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

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 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

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 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 84.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,184 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. against Avalara, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.5/100 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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