Where does Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. ranks #2,135 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 Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. hold?

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. holds 185 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. has an Innovation Score of 63.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. focus on?

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 58 patents, ranking #584 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

Is Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s recent grant velocity is -28% 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 Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s patents?

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s patents average 18.7 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 Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. 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

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 185 granted patents across 80 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, Raytheon ranks #2,135 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 185 patents across 80 technology areas.

#2,135
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.2/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2135 · US Corporation #2,135 · 185 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 185 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,135/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ossur Iceland EHF
CPC-WIDE H04L · 80 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ossur Iceland EHF (±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 Raytheon’s 63.2 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 18.1 pts (29%) Velocity 8.9 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nederlandse… · near

63
Palo Alto Research… · near

63
Raytheon BBN · this assignee

63
Abb Vie · near

63
Siemens Healthcare… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Raytheon's Innovation Score is 63.2/100 (top 2% 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 Raytheon?

Each dot is one of Raytheon’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). Raytheon’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Raytheon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. received 77 grants versus 107 in 2015–2019 (-28% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 28 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 10. Lead class H04L accounts for 31.4% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ossur Iceland EHF (#2,131) and Dart Industries Inc. (#2,139).

Raytheon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. moved from 41 to 55 grants (1.34x 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 #594. See the growth leaderboard.

Ossur Iceland EHF

185
PETRÓLEO Brasilei…

185
Proterial

185
Perkinelmer Healt…

185
Zedel

185
Raytheon BBN ◀

185
Asics

184
Adtran

184
Dart Industries

184

What this shows Raytheon holds 185 patents at rank #2,135, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Raytheon

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,135 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Raytheon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Raytheon ranks #584 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO 63 Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated 63 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. 63 Abb Vie Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Forcepoint LLC 18.7 avg TracFone Wireless, Inc. 18.7 avg The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. 18.7 avg Kyndryl, Inc. 18.7 avg

Raytheon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	9.2%
2016	28	15.1%
2017	25	13.5%
2018	18	9.7%
2019	19	10.3%
2020	10	5.4%
2021	12	6.5%
2022	18	9.7%
2023	23	12.4%
2024	14	7.6%
2025partial year	1	0.5%

Which technologies does Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 58

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 48

H04B - Transmission 23

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 20

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 20

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 17

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 15

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 13

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 10

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 8

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 7

Top 15 of 80 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

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 31.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,135 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. against Ossur Iceland EHF, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.2/100 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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