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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Imperva, Inc. ranks #3,500 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 Imperva, Inc. hold?

Imperva, Inc. holds 105 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Imperva, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Imperva, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Imperva, Inc. focus on?

Imperva, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 83 patents, ranking #450 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Imperva, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +143% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Imperva, Inc.'s patents average 20.9 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 Imperva, 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

Imperva, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 105 granted patents across 9 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, Imperva ranks #3,500 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 105 patents across 9 technology areas.

#3,500
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: +143%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3500 · US Corporation #3,500 · 105 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 105 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,500/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Guangzhou Automobile…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +143% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Guangzhou Automobile Group 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 Imperva’s 51.3 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 16.1 pts (31%) Velocity 12.1 pts (24%) Breadth 10.6 pts (21%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Imperva · this assignee

51
Kyushu Institute OF… · near

51
Oversec UAB · near

51
Swisscom · near

51
Vektor Medical · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Imperva's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Imperva?

Each dot is one of Imperva’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). Imperva’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Imperva's grants concentrate

Imperva, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 79% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (23 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Imperva sits between Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. and Nanosys, Inc..

Imperva's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Imperva, Inc. moved from 26 to 47 grants (1.81x 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 #264. See the growth leaderboard.

Guangzhou Automob…

105
HCT Group Holdings

105
Hewlett-packard I…

105
Hyundai Kefico

105
LM WP Patent Hold…

105
Merial

105
Maxeon Solar Pte

105
Nanosys

105
Imperva ◀

105

What this shows Imperva holds 105 patents at rank #3,500, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Imperva

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,500 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Imperva, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Imperva ranks #450 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Swisscom AG 51 Kyushu Institute OF Technology 51 Oversec, UAB 51 Vektor Medical, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.9 here).

FMR LLC 20.9 avg Debiotech S.A. 20.9 avg Transdermal Biotechnology, Inc. 20.9 avg STMicroelectronics Application GMBH 20.9 avg

Imperva's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Imperva, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	8.6%
2016	4	3.8%
2017	8	7.6%
2018	2	1.9%
2019	5	4.8%
2020	9	8.6%
2021	12	11.4%
2022	23	21.9%
2023	16	15.2%
2024	8	7.6%
2025partial year	9	8.6%

Which technologies does Imperva, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 83

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 56

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

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 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 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

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 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

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

Imperva, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 79% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,500 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Imperva, Inc. against Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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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