Where does Cryptography Research, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cryptography Research, Inc. ranks #2,276 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 Cryptography Research, Inc. hold?

Cryptography Research, Inc. holds 172 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Cryptography Research, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cryptography Research, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.6 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 Cryptography Research, Inc. focus on?

Cryptography Research, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 140 patents, ranking #406 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

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

Cryptography Research, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +98% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Cryptography Research, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 Cryptography Research, 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

Cryptography Research, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 172 granted patents across 14 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, Cryptography ranks #2,276 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 172 patents across 14 technology areas.

#2,276
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +98%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2276 · US Corporation #2,276 · 172 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 172 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,276/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aeva
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +98% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aeva, 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 Cryptography’s 50.6 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 17.8 pts (35%) Velocity 8.0 pts (16%) Breadth 13.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cryptography Research · this assignee

51
Nextsense · near

51
ION Geophysical · near

51
S-Printing Solution · near

51
Yamato Scale · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cryptography's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (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 Cryptography?

Each dot is one of Cryptography’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). Cryptography’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cryptography's grants concentrate

Cryptography Research, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 81.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (25 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Cryptography sits between Yonwoo Co., Ltd. and Rite-Hite Holding Corporation.

Cryptography's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cryptography Research, Inc. moved from 55 to 66 grants (1.20x 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 #782. See the growth leaderboard.

Yonwoo

173
AGS

172
Aeva

172
Cataler

172
Invista North Ame…

172
M-I L L C

172
Prime Planet Ener…

172
Rite-hite Holding

172
Cryptography Rese… ◀

172

What this shows Cryptography holds 172 patents at rank #2,276, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cryptography

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,276 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cryptography, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Cryptography ranks #406 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Nextsense, Inc. 51 S-Printing Solution Co., Ltd. 51 ION Geophysical Corporation 51 Yamato Scale Co., Ltd. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Nortonlifelock Inc. 19.3 avg Illumina Cambridge Limited 19.3 avg Sage Electrochromics, Inc. 19.3 avg WHP Workflow Solutions, Inc. 19.3 avg

Cryptography's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 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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Cryptography Research, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.6%
2016	4	2.3%
2017	15	8.7%
2018	11	6.4%
2019	20	11.6%
2020	16	9.3%
2021	19	11.0%
2022	25	14.5%
2023	18	10.5%
2024	23	13.4%
2025partial year	20	11.6%

Which technologies does Cryptography Research, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 140

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 139

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 22

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 21

G11C - Static Stores 7

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

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

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 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 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

Top 14 of 14 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

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

Cryptography Research, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 81.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #2,276 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cryptography Research, Inc. against Yonwoo Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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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