Where does Rapid7, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rapid7, Inc. ranks #1,498 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 Rapid7, Inc. hold?

Rapid7, Inc. holds 278 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Rapid7, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Rapid7, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.1 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Rapid7, Inc. focus on?

Rapid7, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 226 patents, ranking #184 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Rapid7, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rapid7, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +752% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Rapid7, Inc.'s patents?

Rapid7, Inc.'s patents average 18.5 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 Rapid7, 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

Rapid7, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 278 granted patents across 7 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, Rapid7 ranks #1,498 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 278 patents across 7 technology areas.

#1,498
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.1/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +752%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1498 · US Corporation #1,498 · 278 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 278 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,498/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carestream Health
CPC-NARROW H04L · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +752% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carestream Health, 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 Rapid7’s 59.1 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 19.5 pts (33%) Velocity 19.2 pts (32%) Breadth 9.4 pts (16%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dyson Technology · near

59
The Governors of… · near

59
Aurora Flight Sciences · near

59
Mighty Buildings · near

59
Rapid7 · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rapid7's Innovation Score is 59.1/100 (top 4% 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 Rapid7?

Each dot is one of Rapid7’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). Rapid7’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Rapid7 vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Rapid7's grants concentrate

Rapid7, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 81.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (58 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Rapid7 sits between Carestream Health, Inc. and Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd..

Rapid7's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rapid7, Inc. moved from 58 to 167 grants (2.88x 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 #89. See the growth leaderboard.

Carestream Health

278
Dassault Systemes

278
Infineon Americas

278
Mitsubishi Heavy…

278
Tableau Software

278
Vega Grieshaber KG

278
Rapid7 ◀

278
Conti Temic micro…

277
Nippon Shokubai

277

What this shows Rapid7 holds 278 patents at rank #1,498, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rapid7

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,498 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Rapid7's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rapid7, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Rapid7 ranks #184 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation 59 Mighty Buildings, Inc. 59 The Governors of the University of Alberta 59 Dyson Technology Limited 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

CGG Services SAS 18.5 avg OneTrust, LLC 18.5 avg Tencent America LLC 18.5 avg Seagate Technology LLC 18.5 avg

Rapid7's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Rapid7, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.4%
2016	5	1.8%
2017	3	1.1%
2018	4	1.4%
2019	12	4.3%
2020	14	5.0%
2021	32	11.5%
2022	54	19.4%
2023	55	19.8%
2024	58	20.9%
2025partial year	40	14.4%

Which technologies does Rapid7, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 226

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 158

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 53

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

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 8

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

Top 7 of 7 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

Rapid7, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rapid7, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 81.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,498 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rapid7, Inc. against Carestream Health, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.1/100 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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