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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Proofpoint, Inc. ranks #2,046 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 Proofpoint, Inc. hold?

Proofpoint, Inc. holds 194 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Proofpoint, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Proofpoint, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Proofpoint, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +229% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Proofpoint, Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 Proofpoint, 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

Proofpoint, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Proofpoint, Inc. focus on?

Proofpoint, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 170 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 194 granted patents across 10 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, Proofpoint ranks #2,046 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 194 patents across 10 technology areas.

#2,046
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: +229%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2046 · US Corporation #2,046 · 194 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 194 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,046/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gemalto
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +229% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gemalto SA (±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
Intelligent Energy · near

56
Proofpoint · this assignee

56
Tokai Chemical… · near

56
Tsubakimoto Chain · near

56
Zscaler · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Proofpoint's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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 Proofpoint's grants concentrate

Proofpoint, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 87.6% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (42 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Proofpoint sits between Gemalto SA and TiVo Corporation.

Proofpoint's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Proofpoint, Inc. moved from 44 to 95 grants (2.16x 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 #178. See the growth leaderboard.

Gemalto

194
Ingersoll-rand

194
Intertrust

194
Konami Digital En…

194
Siemens Schweiz

194
Telecommunication…

194
Tongji University

194
Tivo

194
Proofpoint ◀

194

What this shows Proofpoint holds 194 patents at rank #2,046, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Proofpoint

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,046 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Intelligent Energy Limited 56 Tsubakimoto Chain Co. 56 Zscaler, Inc. 56 Tokai Chemical Industries, Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc. 19.7 avg Kandou Labs SA 19.7 avg PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. 19.7 avg nLIGHT, Inc. 19.7 avg

Proofpoint's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Proofpoint, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.5%
2016	4	2.1%
2017	10	5.2%
2018	9	4.6%
2019	14	7.2%
2020	14	7.2%
2021	16	8.2%
2022	21	10.8%
2023	32	16.5%
2024	42	21.6%
2025partial year	31	16.0%

Which technologies does Proofpoint, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 170

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 137

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 41

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 39

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 36

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 14

H03K - Pulse Technique 5

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,046

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.6 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

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

Proofpoint, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 87.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,046 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Proofpoint, Inc. against Gemalto SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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

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