Where does Cylance Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cylance Inc. ranks #3,449 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 Cylance Inc. hold?

Cylance Inc. holds 107 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Cylance Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cylance Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cylance Inc. focus on?

Cylance Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 101 patents, ranking #539 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Cylance Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +106% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Cylance Inc.'s patents average 22.4 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 Cylance 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

Cylance Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 107 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Cylance ranks #3,449 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 107 patents across 9 technology areas.

#3,449
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: +106%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3449 · US Corporation #3,449 · 107 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 107 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,449/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BCE
CPC-NARROW G06F · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +106% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BCE 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 Cylance’s 43.7 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 16.2 pts (37%) Velocity 3.4 pts (8%) Breadth 10.6 pts (24%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Caterpillar Trimble… · near

44
Cylance · this assignee

44
Hefei Reliance Memory · near

44
iNtRON Biotechnology · near

44
Taylor Made Group · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cylance's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 Cylance?

Each dot is one of Cylance’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). Cylance’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cylance's grants concentrate

Cylance Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 94.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (21 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Cylance sits between BCE Inc. and Jilin University.

Cylance's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cylance Inc. moved from 58 to 30 grants (0.52x 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 #2,645. See the growth leaderboard.

BCE

107
Bestop

107
Boston Scientific…

107
Costa Del Mar

107
Diebold Nixdorf I…

107
Elbit Systems

107
Galderma Research…

107
Jilin University

107
Cylance ◀

107

What this shows Cylance holds 107 patents at rank #3,449, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cylance

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,449 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cylance, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Cylance ranks #539 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Hefei Reliance Memory Limited 44 Taylor Made Group, LLC 44 iNtRON Biotechnology, Inc. 44 Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.4 here).

NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc 22.4 avg Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd 22.4 avg Taris Biomedical LLC 22.4 avg iBiquity Digital Corporation 22.4 avg

Cylance's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cylance Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.9%
2016	4	3.7%
2017	7	6.5%
2018	6	5.6%
2019	16	15.0%
2020	21	19.6%
2021	21	19.6%
2022	13	12.1%
2023	13	12.1%
2024	4	3.7%

Which technologies does Cylance Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 101

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 77

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 42

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

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 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Cylance Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 94.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,449 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cylance Inc. against BCE Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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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