Where does Gigamon Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gigamon Inc. ranks #3,533 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 Gigamon Inc. hold?

Gigamon Inc. holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Gigamon Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gigamon Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.0 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%).

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

Gigamon Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Gigamon Inc.'s patents?

Gigamon Inc.'s patents average 24.4 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 Gigamon 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

Gigamon Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Gigamon Inc. focus on?

Gigamon Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 99 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 8 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, Gigamon ranks #3,533 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 8 technology areas.

#3,533
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (44.0/100): 24.4
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3533 · US Corporation #3,533 · 104 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,533/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cymer
CPC-NARROW H04L · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cymer, LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Accu Temp Products · near

44
Canon Denshi · near

44
Gigamon · this assignee

44
Milestone Entertainm… · near

44
Stratec SE · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gigamon's Innovation Score is 44.0/100 (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.

Where Gigamon's grants concentrate

Gigamon Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 95.2% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (17 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2023. By volume, Gigamon sits between Cymer, LLC and Nippon Soken, Inc..

Gigamon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gigamon Inc. moved from 41 to 20 grants (0.49x 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 #2,723. See the growth leaderboard.

Cymer

104
Depuy Mitek

104
Dow Corning Toray

104
ETH ZÜRICH (Eidge…

104
Leica Biosystems…

104
Lightlab Imaging

104
Malikie Innovatio…

104
Nippon Soken

104
Gigamon ◀

104

What this shows Gigamon holds 104 patents at rank #3,533, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gigamon

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,533 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gigamon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha 44 Milestone Entertainment, LLC 44 Stratec SE 44 Accu Temp Products, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.4 here).

Cognitive Systems Corp. 24.4 avg Howard Hughes Medical Institute 24.4 avg Immunogen, Inc. 24.4 avg Headwater Partners II LLC 24.4 avg

Gigamon'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Gigamon Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	7.7%
2016	6	5.8%
2017	13	12.5%
2018	14	13.5%
2019	15	14.4%
2020	9	8.7%
2021	17	16.3%
2022	9	8.7%
2023	5	4.8%
2024	6	5.8%
2025partial year	2	1.9%

Which technologies does Gigamon Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 99

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

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 5

H04B - Transmission 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

H04Q - Selecting 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,533

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Gigamon Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 95.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,533 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gigamon Inc. against Cymer, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.0/100 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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