Where does Rapiscan Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rapiscan Systems, Inc. ranks #2,231 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 Rapiscan Systems, Inc. hold?

Rapiscan Systems, Inc. holds 176 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Rapiscan Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Rapiscan Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.1 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Rapiscan Systems, Inc. focus on?

Rapiscan Systems, Inc.'s top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 130 patents, ranking #14 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

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

Rapiscan Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Rapiscan Systems, Inc.'s patents?

Rapiscan Systems, Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Rapiscan Systems, 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

Rapiscan Systems, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 176 granted patents across 29 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rapiscan ranks #2,231 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 176 patents across 29 technology areas.

#2,231
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.1/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2231 · US Corporation #2,231 · 176 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 176 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,231/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lisa Draexlmaier
CPC-FOCUS G01V · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH (±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 Rapiscan’s 52.1 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 17.9 pts (34%) Velocity 3.3 pts (6%) Breadth 19.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BenQ Materials · near

52
Cambridge Glycoscience · near

52
Makinarocks · near

52
Rapiscan Systems · this assignee

52
Shin-etsu Handotai · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rapiscan's Innovation Score is 52.1/100 (top 10% 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 Rapiscan?

Each dot is one of Rapiscan’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). Rapiscan’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rapiscan's grants concentrate

Rapiscan Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 73.9% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (38 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2024. By volume, Rapiscan sits between Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH and Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH.

Rapiscan's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Rapiscan Systems, Inc. moved from 50 to 25 grants (0.50x 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 #2,697. See the growth leaderboard.

Lisa Draexlmaier

176
Nokia of America

176
Panasonic Automot…

176
Roland DG

176
Toshiba Materials

176
Thermos L L C

176
US Conec

176
Wincor Nixdorf In…

176
Rapiscan Systems ◀

176

What this shows Rapiscan holds 176 patents at rank #2,232, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rapiscan

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,232 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rapiscan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01V (Geophysics), Rapiscan ranks #14 of 835 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. 52 BenQ Materials Corporation 52 Makinarocks Co., Ltd. 52 Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

PlusAI, Inc. 19.8 avg Excalibur IP, LLC 19.8 avg Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. 19.8 avg CVDevices, LLC 19.8 avg

Rapiscan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Rapiscan Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	38	21.6%
2016	19	10.8%
2017	23	13.1%
2018	15	8.5%
2019	20	11.4%
2020	21	11.9%
2021	9	5.1%
2022	9	5.1%
2023	11	6.3%
2024	5	2.8%
2025partial year	6	3.4%

Which technologies does Rapiscan Systems, Inc. patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 130

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 101

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 32

H05G - X-ray Technique 25

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 23

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 20

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 16

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 10

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

Top 15 of 29 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

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

Rapiscan Systems, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 73.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #2,231 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rapiscan Systems, Inc. against Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.1/100 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

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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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