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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Illumio, Inc. ranks #5,769 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 Illumio, Inc. hold?

Illumio, Inc. holds 59 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Illumio, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Illumio, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Illumio, Inc. focus on?

Illumio, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 59 patents, ranking #581 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

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

Illumio, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +167% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Illumio, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Illumio, 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

Illumio, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 59 granted patents across 7 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, Illumio ranks #5,769 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 59 patents across 7 technology areas.

#5,769
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +167%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5769 · US Corporation #5,769 · 59 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 59 grants
UPPER-Q #5,769/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hanwha Vision
CPC-NARROW H04L · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +167% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hanwha Vision 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 Illumio’s 41.5 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 14.1 pts (34%) Velocity 6.4 pts (15%) Breadth 9.4 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blackship Development · near

42
Enza Zaden Beheer B V · near

42
Illumio · this assignee

42
Limagrain Europe · near

42
Syncrude Canada in… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Illumio's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Illumio?

Each dot is one of Illumio’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). Illumio’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Illumio's grants concentrate

Illumio, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Illumio sits between Hanwha Vision Co., Ltd. and Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock.

Illumio's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Illumio, Inc. moved from 23 to 22 grants (0.96x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Hanwha Vision

59
Harting

59
Hypres

59
Intrexon

59
Instrumentation L…

59
J & D Brush

59
Jefferson Science…

59
Honda Lock

59
Illumio ◀

59

What this shows Illumio holds 59 patents at rank #5,770, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Illumio

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,770 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Illumio, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Illumio ranks #581 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Limagrain Europe S.A. 42 Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. 42 Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future 42 Blackship Technologies Development LLC 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Rovi Technologies Corporation 19.4 avg Lockheed Martin Energy, LLC 19.4 avg Flagship Pioneering Innovations VI, LLC 19.4 avg Kinestral Technologies, Inc. 19.4 avg

Illumio's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Illumio, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	5.1%
2017	1	1.7%
2018	6	10.2%
2019	5	8.5%
2020	7	11.9%
2021	11	18.6%
2022	11	18.6%
2023	8	13.6%
2024	3	5.1%
2025partial year	4	6.8%

Which technologies does Illumio, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 59

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

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

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 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Illumio, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #5,769 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Illumio, Inc. against Hanwha Vision Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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