Where does Forcepoint LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Forcepoint LLC ranks #2,041 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 Forcepoint LLC hold?

Forcepoint LLC holds 194 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Forcepoint LLC's Innovation Score?

Forcepoint LLC has an Innovation Score of 47.5 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Forcepoint LLC focus on?

Forcepoint LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 165 patents, ranking #254 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Forcepoint LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Forcepoint LLC's recent grant velocity is +811% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Forcepoint LLC's patents?

Forcepoint LLC's patents average 18.7 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 Forcepoint LLC 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

Forcepoint LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 194 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Forcepoint ranks #2,041 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 194 patents across 9 technology areas.

#2,041
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.5/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +811%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2041 · US Corporation #2,041 · 194 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 194 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,041/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Duksan Neolux
CPC-NARROW H04L · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +811% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Duksan Neolux Co., Ltd (±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 Forcepoint’s 47.5 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 18.2 pts (38%) Velocity 7.5 pts (16%) Breadth 10.6 pts (22%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fair Isaac · near

48
Luxtera · near

48
Diehl Metering Systems · near

48
Forcepoint · this assignee

48
Weir Minerals… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Forcepoint's Innovation Score is 47.5/100 (top 18% 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 Forcepoint?

Each dot is one of Forcepoint’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). Forcepoint’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Forcepoint's grants concentrate

Forcepoint LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 85.1% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (42 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Forcepoint sits between Med-el Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH and Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd..

Forcepoint's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Forcepoint LLC moved from 86 to 97 grants (1.13x 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 #909. See the growth leaderboard.

Med-el Elektromed…

195
Nordic Semiconduc…

195
Versum Materials…

195
Duksan Neolux

194
Gemalto

194
Ingersoll-rand

194
Intertrust

194
Konami Digital En…

194
Forcepoint ◀

194

What this shows Forcepoint holds 194 patents at rank #2,041, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Forcepoint

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,041 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Forcepoint, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Forcepoint ranks #254 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Weir Minerals Australia Ltd. 48 Diehl Metering Systems GmbH 48 Luxtera, Inc. 48 Fair Isaac Corporation 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. 18.7 avg TracFone Wireless, Inc. 18.7 avg The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. 18.7 avg Kyndryl, Inc. 18.7 avg

Forcepoint's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Forcepoint LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.5%
2017	1	0.5%
2018	7	3.6%
2019	10	5.2%
2020	34	17.5%
2021	42	21.6%
2022	38	19.6%
2023	39	20.1%
2024	20	10.3%
2025partial year	2	1.0%

Which technologies does Forcepoint LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 165

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 129

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 34

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 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Forcepoint LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Forcepoint LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 85.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,041 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Forcepoint LLC against Med-el Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.5/100 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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