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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leidos, Inc. ranks #3,203 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 Leidos, Inc. hold?

Leidos, Inc. holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 76 technology areas.

What is Leidos, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Leidos, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.8 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Leidos, Inc. focus on?

Leidos, Inc.'s top technology area is C07K (Peptides) with 22 patents, ranking #442 of 3,615 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 76 CPC subclasses total.

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

Leidos, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Leidos, Inc.'s patents?

Leidos, Inc.'s patents average 15.2 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 Leidos, 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

Leidos, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 76 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: C07K (Peptides).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leidos ranks #3,203 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 76 technology areas.

#3,203
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.8/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3203 · US Corporation #3,203 · 117 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,203/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH John Mezzalingua…
CPC-WIDE C07K · 76 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: John Mezzalingua Associates, 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.

How Leidos’s 53.8 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 16.5 pts (31%) Velocity 3.2 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Desktop Metal · near

54
Federal-Mogul… · near

54
Leidos · this assignee

54
University of… · near

54
Xyleco · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Leidos's Innovation Score is 53.8/100 (top 8% 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 Leidos?

Each dot is one of Leidos’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). Leidos’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Leidos's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Leidos, Inc. received 34 grants versus 77 in 2015–2019 (-56% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 20 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 5. Lead class C07K accounts for 18.8% of the portfolio across 76 subclasses. Volume neighbours: John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC (#3,199) and PlayNitride Inc. (#3,207).

Leidos's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Leidos, Inc. moved from 33 to 16 grants (0.48x 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 #2,728. See the growth leaderboard.

John Mezzalingua…

117
Kansai Paint

117
Karlsruher Instit…

117
Krohne Messtechnik

117
Merry (Shenzhen)

117
Modine Manufactur…

117
Nasdaq Technology…

117
Playnitride

117
Leidos ◀

117

What this shows Leidos holds 117 patents at rank #3,203, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leidos

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,203 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07K (Peptides)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Leidos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07K (Peptides), Leidos ranks #442 of 3,615 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC 54 Desktop Metal, Inc. 54 Xyleco, Inc. 54 University of Vermont and State Agricultural College 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Hanmi Pharm. Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg Samson Aktiengesellschaft 15.2 avg Basf Agro B.V. 15.2 avg THE Scripps Research Institute 15.2 avg

Leidos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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

Leidos, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	11.1%
2016	20	17.1%
2017	10	8.5%
2018	19	16.2%
2019	15	12.8%
2020	13	11.1%
2021	5	4.3%
2022	5	4.3%
2023	6	5.1%
2024	5	4.3%
2025partial year	6	5.1%

Which technologies does Leidos, Inc. patent most?

C07K - Peptides 22

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 19

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 18

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 11

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 8

B01D - Separation 8

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 8

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 7

H04B - Transmission 6

Top 15 of 76 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

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

Leidos, Inc.'s lead technology class is C07K (Peptides), 18.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07K
Ranked #3,203 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leidos, Inc. against John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.8/100 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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