Where does Riverbed Technology LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Riverbed Technology LLC ranks #3,856 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 Riverbed Technology LLC hold?

Riverbed Technology LLC holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Riverbed Technology LLC's Innovation Score?

Riverbed Technology LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Riverbed Technology LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Riverbed Technology LLC's recent grant velocity is -70% 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 Riverbed Technology LLC's patents?

Riverbed Technology LLC's patents average 19.4 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 Riverbed Technology LLC 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

Riverbed Technology LLC

Q: What technology areas does Riverbed Technology LLC focus on?

Riverbed Technology LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 68 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 11 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, Riverbed ranks #3,856 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 11 technology areas.

#3,856
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3856 · US Corporation #3,856 · 94 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,856/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MiMedx Group
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MiMedx Group, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hgci · near

42
Hitachi-Johnson… · near

42
RareCyte · near

42
Riverbed Technology · this assignee

42
Supernus Pharmaceuti… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Riverbed's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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.

Where Riverbed's grants concentrate

Riverbed Technology LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 72.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (35 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Riverbed sits between MiMedx Group, Inc. and Skullcandy, Inc..

Riverbed's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Riverbed Technology LLC moved from 24 to 9 grants (0.38x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Mimedx Group

94
Mitsuboshi Belting

94
National Universi…

94
Plume Design

94
Sanyo Chemical In…

94
SUN Yat-sen Unive…

94
Shanghai Huali In…

94
Skullcandy

94
Riverbed Technolo… ◀

94

What this shows Riverbed holds 94 patents at rank #3,856, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Riverbed

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,856 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Riverbed, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc. 42 Hgci, Inc. 42 RareCyte, Inc. 42 Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Chevron Oronite Company LLC 19.4 avg Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. 19.4 avg Comscore, Inc. 19.4 avg Relign Corporation 19.4 avg

Riverbed's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Riverbed Technology LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	37.2%
2016	15	16.0%
2017	5	5.3%
2018	4	4.3%
2019	12	12.8%
2020	5	5.3%
2021	7	7.4%
2022	2	2.1%
2023	4	4.3%
2024	3	3.2%
2025partial year	2	2.1%

Which technologies does Riverbed Technology LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 68

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 37

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

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 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

H04B - Transmission 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,856

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

41.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Riverbed Technology LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Riverbed Technology LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 72.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #3,856 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Riverbed Technology LLC against MiMedx Group, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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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