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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), RingCentral, Inc. ranks #1,503 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 RingCentral, Inc. hold?

RingCentral, Inc. holds 277 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is RingCentral, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

RingCentral, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.2 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 RingCentral, Inc. focus on?

RingCentral, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 188 patents, ranking #227 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

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

RingCentral, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +4% 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 RingCentral, Inc.'s patents?

RingCentral, Inc.'s patents average 19.2 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 RingCentral, 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

RingCentral, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 277 granted patents across 20 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, Ringcentral ranks #1,503 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 277 patents across 20 technology areas.

#1,503
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.2/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1503 · US Corporation #1,503 · 277 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 277 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,503/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Conti Temic…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Conti Temic microelectronic 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 Ringcentral’s 52.2 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 19.4 pts (37%) Velocity 5.4 pts (10%) Breadth 15.8 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carl Zeiss · near

52
Beijing Naura… · near

52
Darex · near

52
Ionis Pharmaceuticals · near

52
RingCentral · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ringcentral's Innovation Score is 52.2/100 (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 Ringcentral?

Each dot is one of Ringcentral’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). Ringcentral’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ringcentral's grants concentrate

RingCentral, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 67.9% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (35 grants) versus a trough of 20 in 2023. By volume, Ringcentral sits between Tableau Software, Inc. and Haldor TOPSØE A/S.

Ringcentral's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, RingCentral, Inc. moved from 82 to 67 grants (0.82x 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 #1,781. See the growth leaderboard.

Tableau Software

278
Vega Grieshaber KG

278
Conti Temic micro…

277
Nippon Shokubai

277
Triad National Se…

277
Ringcentral ◀

277
Lotes

276
Fuji Jukogyo

275
Haldor TOPSØE A/S

275

What this shows RingCentral holds 277 patents at rank #1,503, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near RingCentral

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,503 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for RingCentral, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), RingCentral ranks #227 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 52 Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd. 52 Darex, LLC 52 Carl Zeiss AG 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.2 here).

O2Micro Inc. 19.2 avg Baldwin Filters, Inc. 19.2 avg Inphi Corporation 19.2 avg 7-eleven, Inc. 19.2 avg

Ringcentral'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.

View data table

RingCentral, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	9.7%
2016	27	9.7%
2017	26	9.4%
2018	22	7.9%
2019	21	7.6%
2020	35	12.6%
2021	26	9.4%
2022	25	9.0%
2023	20	7.2%
2024	22	7.9%
2025partial year	26	9.4%

Which technologies does RingCentral, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 188

H04M - Telephonic Communication 110

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 82

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 78

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 42

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 38

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 23

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 21

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

H04B - Transmission 2

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 2

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 2

H04Q - Selecting 1

Top 15 of 20 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

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

RingCentral, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 67.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,503 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare RingCentral, Inc. against Tableau Software, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.2/100 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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