Where does Raytheon Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Raytheon Company ranks #119 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 Company hold?

Raytheon Company holds 3,108 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 293 technology areas.

What is Raytheon Company's Innovation Score?

Raytheon Company has an Innovation Score of 69.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Raytheon Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Raytheon Company's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Company's patents?

Raytheon Company's patents average 17.9 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 Company 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 Company

Q: What technology areas does Raytheon Company focus on?

Raytheon Company's top technology area is 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) with 443 patents, ranking #9 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 293 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,108 granted patents across 293 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Raytheon ranks #119 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,108 patents across 293 technology areas.

#119
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.7/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R119 · US Corporation #119 · 3,108 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #119/49,997
NEAR-PEER Nvidia
CPC-BROAD G01S · 293 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nvidia Corporation (±33 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 69.7 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 27.8 pts (40%) Velocity 6.2 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Joby Aero · near

70
PlusAI · near

70
Raytheon · this assignee

70
Covestro (Netherland… · near

70
Outdoor Wireless… · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Raytheon's Innovation Score is 69.7/100 (top 1% 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 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.4 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 Company received 1,345 grants versus 1,613 in 2015–2019 (-17% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 359 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 223. Lead class G01S accounts for 14.3% of the portfolio across 293 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (#115) and Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc. (#123).

Raytheon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Raytheon Company moved from 883 to 821 grants (0.93x 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 #1,386. See the growth leaderboard.

Toyota Motor Engi…

3,200
Sumitomo Wiring S…

3,190
Medtronic

3,184
Stmicroelectronics

3,182
Raytheon ◀

3,108
Nvidia

3,075
Sony Interactive…

3,038
Mediatek

3,036
Pioneer Hi-bred I…

3,033

What this shows Raytheon holds 3,108 patents at rank #119, 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 #119 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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 G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Raytheon ranks #9 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. 70 PlusAI, Inc. 70 Joby Aero, Inc. 70 Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Dish Technologies L.L.C. 17.9 avg Gen-probe Incorporated 17.9 avg Cummins Emission Solutions Inc. 17.9 avg Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co. KG 17.9 avg

Raytheon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	318	10.2%
2016	335	10.8%
2017	306	9.8%
2018	295	9.5%
2019	359	11.6%
2020	247	7.9%
2021	277	8.9%
2022	302	9.7%
2023	296	9.5%
2024	223	7.2%
2025partial year	150	4.8%

Which technologies does Raytheon Company patent most?

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 443

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 362

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 354

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 291

H04B - Transmission 281

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 227

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 221

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 217

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 213

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 170

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 166

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 142

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 120

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 105

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 100

Top 15 of 293 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 Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Raytheon Company's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 14.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #119 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Raytheon Company against Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.7/100 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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