Where does Malwarebytes Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Malwarebytes Inc. ranks #8,430 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 Malwarebytes Inc. hold?

Malwarebytes Inc. holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Malwarebytes Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Malwarebytes Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Malwarebytes Inc. focus on?

Malwarebytes Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 34 patents, ranking #1,334 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

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

Malwarebytes Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +24% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Malwarebytes Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Malwarebytes 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

Malwarebytes Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Malwarebytes ranks #8,430 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 4 technology areas.

#8,430
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8430 · US Corporation #8,430 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,430/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MacDermid Enthone
CPC-NARROW G06F · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MacDermid Enthone 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 Malwarebytes’s 33.3 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 12.7 pts (38%) Velocity 2.5 pts (8%) Breadth 7.1 pts (21%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mitsui Chemicals Agro · near

33
Malwarebytes · this assignee

33
Multivac Sepp… · near

33
System General · near

33
Wilo SE · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Malwarebytes's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th percentile 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 Malwarebytes?

Each dot is one of Malwarebytes’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). Malwarebytes’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Malwarebytes's grants concentrate

Malwarebytes Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 89.5% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Malwarebytes sits between MLOptic Corp. and Medtentia International Ltd Oy.

Malwarebytes's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Malwarebytes Inc. moved from 21 to 8 grants (0.38x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Mloptic

38
Momentive Perform…

38
Mpow Technology

38
Macdermid Enthone

38
Marvin Lumber and…

38
Mccain Foods

38
Mckesson Financia…

38
Medtentia Interna…

38
Malwarebytes ◀

38

What this shows Malwarebytes holds 38 patents at rank #8,436, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Malwarebytes

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,436 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Malwarebytes, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Malwarebytes ranks #1,334 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

System General Corp. 33 Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller GMBH & Co. KG 33 Wilo SE 33 Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. 33

Malwarebytes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Malwarebytes Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.9%
2017	3	7.9%
2018	3	7.9%
2019	8	21.1%
2020	3	7.9%
2021	10	26.3%
2022	3	7.9%
2023	5	13.2%

Which technologies does Malwarebytes Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 34

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 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 1

Top 4 of 4 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

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

Malwarebytes Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 89.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #8,430 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Malwarebytes Inc. against MLOptic Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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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