Where does Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. ranks #6,585 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 Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. hold?

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 55.8 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 Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -59% 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 Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s patents?

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s patents average 13.6 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 Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. focus on?

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s top technology area is F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 46 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: F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rafael ranks #6,585 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 46 technology areas.

#6,585
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.8/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6585 · Foreign Corporation #6,585 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,585/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Paraty B V B A
CPC-WIDE F41H · 46 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Paraty B.V.B.A. (±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
Virginia Commonwealt… · near

56
Lucomm · near

56
Rafael Advanced… · this assignee

56
Salomon S · near

56
Swagelok · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rafael's Innovation Score is 55.8/100 (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 Rafael's grants concentrate

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 17.6% of grants classified under F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Rafael sits between Paraty B.V.B.A. and Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd..

Rafael's three-year grant acceleration

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Paraty B V B A

51
Polyvalor Partner…

51
Proslide Technolo…

51
Rhizen Pharmaceut…

51
Reservoir Labs

51
S&P Global

51
Shandong Linglong…

51
Shibaura Machine

51
Rafael Advanced D… ◀

51

What this shows Rafael holds 51 patents at rank #6,586, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rafael

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,586 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41H (Armour)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Lucomm Technologies, Inc. 56 Virginia Commonwealth University 56 Swagelok Company 56 Salomon S.A.S. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.6 here).

Shenzhen TCL NEW Technology Co., Ltd. 13.6 avg aTyr Pharma, Inc. 13.6 avg DePuy Mitek, LLC 13.6 avg CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd. 13.6 avg

Rafael'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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Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	17.6%
2016	6	11.8%
2017	5	9.8%
2018	6	11.8%
2019	3	5.9%
2020	1	2.0%
2021	2	3.9%
2022	2	3.9%
2024	7	13.7%
2025partial year	10	19.6%

Which technologies does Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. patent most?

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 9

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 9

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 6

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 6

F41F - Apparatus FOR Launching Projectiles OR Missiles From Barrels, e.g. Cannons ; Launchers FOR Rockets OR TORPEDOES; Harpoon Guns 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 3

H04B - Transmission 2

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 2

Top 15 of 46 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,585

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.8 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

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.'s lead technology class is F41H (ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General), 17.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41H
Ranked #6,585 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. against Paraty B.V.B.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.8/100 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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