Where does Red Hat, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Red Hat, Inc. ranks #148 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 Red Hat, Inc. hold?

Red Hat, Inc. holds 2,585 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Red Hat, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Red Hat, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 71.7 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%).

What technology areas does Red Hat, Inc. focus on?

Red Hat, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 2,142 patents, ranking #33 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

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

Red Hat, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +22% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Red Hat, Inc.'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 Red Hat, 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

Red Hat, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,585 granted patents across 49 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Red ranks #148 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,585 patents across 49 technology areas.

#148
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.7/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R148 · US Corporation #148 · 2,585 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #148/49,997
NEAR-PEER Paypal
CPC-WIDE G06F · 49 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Paypal, Inc. (±24 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 Red’s 71.7 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 27.1 pts (38%) Velocity 8.6 pts (12%) Breadth 24.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Semes · near

72
AutoStore Technology… · near

72
Red Hat · this assignee

72
Aptiv · near

72
Beijing BOE Sensor… · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Red's Innovation Score is 71.7/100 (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 Red?

Each dot is one of Red’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). Red’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Red's grants concentrate

Red Hat, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 82.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (296 grants) versus a trough of 192 in 2017. By volume, Red sits between Airbus Operations Limited and United Services Automobile Association (USAA).

Red's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Red Hat, Inc. moved from 676 to 869 grants (1.29x 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 #666. See the growth leaderboard.

Airbus Operations

2,643
Kioxia

2,641
Arm

2,613
Paypal

2,609
Red Hat ◀

2,585
Semiconductor Com…

2,555
Omron

2,552
Commscope

2,550
United Services A…

2,549

What this shows Red holds 2,585 patents at rank #148, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Red

By rank, the assignees closest to #148 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Red, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Red ranks #33 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

AutoStore Technology AS 72 Aptiv Technologies AG 72 Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. 72 Semes Co., Ltd. 72

Similar claim depth

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

University of Utah Research Foundation 18.7 avg TC1 LLC 18.7 avg Liqid Inc. 18.7 avg Protegrity Corporation 18.7 avg

Red's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 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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Red Hat, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	253	9.8%
2016	204	7.9%
2017	192	7.4%
2018	199	7.7%
2019	229	8.9%
2020	223	8.6%
2021	224	8.7%
2022	296	11.5%
2023	283	10.9%
2024	290	11.2%
2025partial year	192	7.4%

Which technologies does Red Hat, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2,142

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 957

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 137

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 134

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 66

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 57

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 24

H04M - Telephonic Communication 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 9

H04B - Transmission 7

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 6

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 6

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Top 15 of 49 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Red Hat, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 82.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #148 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Red Hat, Inc. against Airbus Operations Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.