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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fortinet, Inc. ranks #564 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 Fortinet, Inc. hold?

Fortinet, Inc. holds 801 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Fortinet, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Fortinet, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 62.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fortinet, Inc. focus on?

Fortinet, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 670 patents, ranking #75 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

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

Fortinet, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Fortinet, Inc.'s patents?

Fortinet, Inc.'s patents average 16.8 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 Fortinet, 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

Fortinet, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 801 granted patents across 40 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, Fortinet ranks #564 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 801 patents across 40 technology areas.

#564
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.3/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R564 · US Corporation #564 · 801 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 801 grants
TOP-DECILE #564/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH B/E Aerospace
CPC-WIDE H04L · 40 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: B/E Aerospace, 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 Fortinet’s 62.3 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 23.1 pts (37%) Velocity 6.7 pts (11%) Breadth 22.4 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fortinet · this assignee

62
III Holdings 12 · near

62
Rondo Energy · near

62
STMicroelectronics… · near

62
University of… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fortinet's Innovation Score is 62.3/100 (top 2% 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 Fortinet?

Each dot is one of Fortinet’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). Fortinet’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fortinet's grants concentrate

Fortinet, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 83.6% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (130 grants) versus a trough of 45 in 2015. By volume, Fortinet sits between Rohm and Haas Company and Bally Gaming, Inc..

Fortinet's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fortinet, Inc. moved from 168 to 170 grants (1.01x 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 #1,153. See the growth leaderboard.

Rohm and Haas

803
Ut-battelle

803
Hefei BOE Optoele…

802
B/E Aerospace

801
Fortinet ◀

801
Resmed Pty

800
Wipro

794
Alcon

793
Bally Gaming

792

What this shows Fortinet holds 801 patents at rank #564, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fortinet

By rank, the assignees closest to #564 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fortinet, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Fortinet ranks #75 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

University of British Columbia 62 III Holdings 12, LLC 62 STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS 62 Rondo Energy, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

University of Rochester 16.8 avg Visera Technologies Company Limited 16.8 avg Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg 16.8 avg Zonit Structured Solutions, LLC 16.8 avg

Fortinet's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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.

View data table

Fortinet, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	45	5.6%
2016	77	9.6%
2017	110	13.7%
2018	130	16.2%
2019	72	9.0%
2020	49	6.1%
2021	47	5.9%
2022	54	6.7%
2023	54	6.7%
2024	62	7.7%
2025partial year	101	12.6%

Which technologies does Fortinet, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 670

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 282

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 206

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 49

H04B - Transmission 30

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 23

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 13

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 12

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 12

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 7

G01W - Meteorology 7

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

Top 15 of 40 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

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

Fortinet, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 83.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #564 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fortinet, Inc. against Rohm and Haas Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.3/100 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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