Where does Cloudflare, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cloudflare, Inc. ranks #1,400 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 Cloudflare, Inc. hold?

Cloudflare, Inc. holds 301 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Cloudflare, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cloudflare, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.2 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cloudflare, Inc. focus on?

Cloudflare, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 284 patents, ranking #157 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

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

Cloudflare, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +86% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Cloudflare, Inc.'s patents average 20.4 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 Cloudflare, 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

Cloudflare, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 301 granted patents across 7 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, Cloudflare ranks #1,400 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 301 patents across 7 technology areas.

#1,400
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.2/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1400 · US Corporation #1,400 · 301 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 301 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,400/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Autoliv ASP
CPC-NARROW H04L · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Autoliv ASP, 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 Cloudflare’s 50.2 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 19.7 pts (39%) Velocity 8.9 pts (18%) Breadth 9.4 pts (19%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tracto-technik & KG · near

50
Arlanxeo Deutschland · near

50
Cloudflare · this assignee

50
R3 · near

50
Techno-umg · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cloudflare's Innovation Score is 50.2/100 (top 13% 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 Cloudflare?

Each dot is one of Cloudflare’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). Cloudflare’s own 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cloudflare's grants concentrate

Cloudflare, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 94.4% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (41 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2016. By volume, Cloudflare sits between Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC and ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC.

Cloudflare's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cloudflare, Inc. moved from 88 to 117 grants (1.33x 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 #606. See the growth leaderboard.

Owens Corning Int…

302
Skechers U II

302
Truist Bank

302
Autoliv ASP

301
Voith Patent

301
Wal-mart Stores

301
Cloudflare ◀

301
Amphenol

300
Arvinmeritor Tech…

300

What this shows Cloudflare holds 301 patents at rank #1,400, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cloudflare

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,400 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cloudflare, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Cloudflare ranks #157 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Arlanxeo Deutschland GmbH 50 Techno-umg Co., Ltd. 50 R3 Ltd. 50 Tracto-technik GmbH & Co., KG 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

Wirtgen GmbH 20.4 avg Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. 20.4 avg Upwing Energy, Inc. 20.4 avg Architecture Technology Corporation 20.4 avg

Cloudflare's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Cloudflare, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	4.0%
2016	9	3.0%
2017	26	8.6%
2018	23	7.6%
2019	26	8.6%
2020	32	10.6%
2021	30	10.0%
2022	36	12.0%
2023	40	13.3%
2024	41	13.6%
2025partial year	26	8.6%

Which technologies does Cloudflare, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 284

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 133

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 29

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Cloudflare, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 94.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,400 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cloudflare, Inc. against Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.2/100 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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