Where does Sonicwall Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sonicwall Inc. ranks #2,464 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 Sonicwall Inc. hold?

Sonicwall Inc. holds 159 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Sonicwall Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Sonicwall Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sonicwall Inc. focus on?

Sonicwall Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 136 patents, ranking #293 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

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

Sonicwall Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Sonicwall Inc.'s patents?

Sonicwall Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Sonicwall 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

Sonicwall Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 159 granted patents across 17 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, Sonicwall ranks #2,464 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 159 patents across 17 technology areas.

#2,464
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2464 · US Corporation #2,464 · 159 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 159 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,464/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LG Household &…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LG Household & Health Care Ltd. (±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 Sonicwall’s 48.5 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 17.5 pts (36%) Velocity 5.1 pts (11%) Breadth 14.6 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Coherent Logix… · near

49
Kakao · near

49
Kitagawa Industries · near

49
Shanghai IC R&D Center · near

49
Sonicwall · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sonicwall's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Sonicwall?

Each dot is one of Sonicwall’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). Sonicwall’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sonicwall's grants concentrate

Sonicwall Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 85.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (35 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2015. By volume, Sonicwall sits between LG Household & Health Care Ltd. and UDC Ireland Limited.

Sonicwall's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sonicwall Inc. moved from 51 to 39 grants (0.77x 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 #1,947. See the growth leaderboard.

LG Household & He…

159
National SUN Yat-…

159
Nippon Light Metal

159
Shenzhen Xpectvis…

159
Simmonds Precisio…

159
THE Glad Products

159
Touchtunes Music

159
UDC Ireland

159
Sonicwall ◀

159

What this shows Sonicwall holds 159 patents at rank #2,463, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sonicwall

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,463 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sonicwall, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Sonicwall ranks #293 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Coherent Logix, Incorporated 49 Kakao Corp. 49 Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd. 49 Shanghai IC R&D Center Co., Ltd. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Upm-kymmene Corporation 18.9 avg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 18.9 avg Red Hat Israel Ltd. 18.9 avg City University OF Hong Kong 18.9 avg

Sonicwall's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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

Sonicwall Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	5.7%
2017	19	11.9%
2018	35	22.0%
2019	27	17.0%
2020	14	8.8%
2021	10	6.3%
2022	9	5.7%
2023	12	7.5%
2024	18	11.3%
2025partial year	6	3.8%

Which technologies does Sonicwall Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 136

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 86

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 29

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 8

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 4

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 3

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 2

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 2

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 2

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Sonicwall Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 85.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,464 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sonicwall Inc. against LG Household & Health Care Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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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