Where does Riot Games, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Riot Games, Inc. ranks #10,160 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 Riot Games, Inc. hold?

Riot Games, Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Riot Games, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Riot Games, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Riot Games, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +163% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Riot Games, Inc.'s patents?

Riot Games, Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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 Riot Games, 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

Riot Games, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Riot Games, Inc. focus on?

Riot Games, Inc.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 30 patents, ranking #64 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 6 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Riot ranks #10,160 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 6 technology areas.

#10,160
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +163%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10160 · US Corporation #10,160 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,160/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Rambus Delaware
CPC-NARROW A63F · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +163% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Rambus Delaware LLC (±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 Riot’s 51.8 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 12.0 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 8.7 pts (17%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FLSmidth A/S · near

52
Helmholtz-zentrum… · near

52
Riot Games · this assignee

52
Skillz Platform · near

52
Targus International · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Riot's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 Riot?

Each dot is one of Riot’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). Riot’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Riot's grants concentrate

Riot Games, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 96.8% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Riot sits between Reeves Wireline Technologies Limited and Rea.deeming Beauty, Inc..

Riot's three-year grant acceleration

Riot Games, Inc. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Reeves Wireline

31
Relx

31
Resvent Medical T…

31
Richard Wolf

31
Ripple Luxembourg

31
Rambus Delaware

31
Ranir

31
Rea deeming Beauty

31
Riot Games ◀

31

What this shows Riot holds 31 patents at rank #10,155, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Riot

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,155 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Riot, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), Riot ranks #64 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Helmholtz-zentrum Dresden-rossendorf E.V. 52 Targus International LLC 52 Skillz Platform, Inc. 52 FLSmidth A/S 52

Riot's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Riot Games, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.2%
2016	1	3.2%
2017	2	6.5%
2018	3	9.7%
2019	1	3.2%
2021	3	9.7%
2022	8	25.8%
2023	4	12.9%
2024	6	19.4%
2025partial year	2	6.5%

Which technologies does Riot Games, Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 30

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 6 of 6 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

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

Riot Games, Inc.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 96.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #10,160 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Riot Games, Inc. against Reeves Wireline Technologies Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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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