CrowdStrike has a total of 944 patents globally, out of which 654 have been granted. Of these 944 patents, 73% patents are active. The United States of America is where CrowdStrike has filed the maximum number of patents, followed by Europe (EPO) and Germany. Parallelly, United States of America seems to be the main focused R&D centre and also is the origin country of CrowdStrike.
CrowdStrike was founded in 2011. The company is a cloud-native cybersecurity company that provides solutions across key security areas, including endpoint protection, cloud workload security, identity protection, and security operations. Its core offering, the Falcon platform, gives enterprises a unified platform to identify, monitor, and respond to security threats across their IT environments.
Defending ourselves against cyberattacks has progressed far beyond the antivirus software you once installed on your computer. Crowdstrike safeguards its customers in the cloud, which is where the digital world is moving!
Do read about some of the most popular patents of CrowdStrike which have been covered by us in this article and also you can find CrowdStrike patents information, the worldwide patent filing activity and its patent filing trend over the years, and many other stats over CrowdStrike patent portfolio.
How many patents does CrowdStrike have?
CrowdStrike has a total of 944 patents globally. These patents belong to 306 unique patent families. Out of 944 patents, 691 patents are active.
How Many Patents did CrowdStrike File Every Year?
Are you wondering why there is a drop in patent filing for the last two years? It is because a patent application can take up to 18 months to get published. Certainly, it doesn’t suggest a decrease in the patent filing.
| Year of Patents Filing or Grant | CrowdStrike Applications Filed | CrowdStrike Patents Granted |
| 2026 | 4 | 66 |
| 2025 | 35 | 113 |
| 2024 | 127 | 53 |
| 2023 | 100 | 75 |
| 2022 | 54 | 45 |
| 2021 | 48 | 71 |
| 2020 | 75 | 77 |
| 2019 | 92 | 42 |
| 2018 | 75 | 40 |
| 2017 | 77 | 16 |
CrowdStrike’s patent filings rose sharply from 54 applications in 2022 to 100 in 2023 and 127 in 2024, making 2024 the highest filing year in the portfolio. But the more important change is in the subject matter. Roughly one-quarter of CrowdStrike-originated applications filed during 2023-2024 contain AI/ML-related concepts, compared with only about 5% during 2017-2020.
Recent filings cover areas such as large-language-model-based threat exposure management, AI-assisted malware analysis, cybersecurity reinforcement learning, AI model vulnerability detection, breach prediction, false-positive prediction and AI-driven event classification. This suggests that CrowdStrike is not simply adding AI as a user-facing feature; it is increasingly embedding machine learning into how threats are identified, classified, prioritized and explained.
The useful signal to track is where AI is being applied inside the security workflow. If patent activity continues to cluster around detection, risk scoring, investigation and response, it could indicate that CrowdStrike is building proprietary automation across more stages of the security-operations cycle rather than treating AI as a standalone product layer.
Another interesting pattern appears when the portfolio is separated by original applicant. Around 87% of the 2023 applications and 94% of the 2024 applications were originally filed by CrowdStrike itself, compared with roughly 65–80% in several earlier years.
That matters because CrowdStrike’s portfolio includes patents that originated with other organizations and acquired technology groups. The sharp 2023–2024 increase therefore does not appear to be explained mainly by acquired legacy IP; much of the recent filing growth is being generated directly under CrowdStrike.
How many CrowdStrike patents are Alive/Dead?
Worldwide Patents
How Many Patents did CrowdStrike File in Different Countries?
Countries in which CrowdStrike Filed Patents
| Country | Patents |
| United States of America | 521 |
| Europe (EPO) | 142 |
| Germany | 88 |
| Austria | 70 |
| Japan | 24 |
| Israel | 20 |
| Australia | 20 |
| Canada | 20 |
| Brazil | 8 |
| Singapore | 8 |
| India | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
CrowdStrike’s portfolio is still anchored in the US, with 521 publications, but the more useful signal is that roughly 117 of its 306 patent families extend into more than one country. That means international filing is selective rather than automatic, so the families taken into Europe, Germany, Austria, Japan, Israel, Australia, Canada, and other markets deserve closer attention.
The practical insight is to rank those multi-country families by technology. If areas such as AI-driven threat detection, cloud security, identity protection, or application security appear repeatedly across several jurisdictions, those clusters may represent technologies CrowdStrike sees as strategically important beyond the US. In other words, the geography chart is most useful as a filter for identifying which inventions CrowdStrike is willing to spend more to protect globally, rather than simply showing where patents were filed.
Where are Research Centers of CrowdStrike Patents Located?
10 Best CrowdStrike Patents
US20090249446A1 is the most popular patent in the CrowdStrike portfolio. It has received 147 citations so far from companies like Oracle, IBM, Varonis Systems.
Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of CrowdStrike:
| Publication Number | Citation Count |
| US20090249446A1 | 147 |
| US8745718B1 | 135 |
| US9043903B2 | 120 |
| US20190273510A1 | 104 |
| US8141111B2 | 87 |
| US8893293B1 | 81 |
| US7877689B2 | 76 |
| US20190273509A1 | 71 |
| US20110246444A1 | 68 |
| US8145528B2 | 60 |
What Percentage of CrowdStrike US Patent Applications were Granted?
CrowdStrike (Excluding its subsidiaries) has filed 227 patent applications at USPTO so far (Excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 155 have been granted leading to a grant rate of 95.09%.
Below are the key stats of CrowdStrike patent prosecution at the USPTO.
Which Law Firms are managing US Patents for CrowdStrike?
| Law Firm | Total Applications | Success Rate |
| Lee & Hayes PC | 138 | 93.42% |
| Womble Bond Dickinson Us Llp | 37 | 100.00% |
| Murgitroyd | 27 | 96.30% |
| Crowdstrike (Inhouse Ip Deptt) | 16 | 100.00% |
| Law Office Of Scott P Zimmerman Pllc | 6 | 0% |
| Beyer Law Group Llp | 1 | 0% |
| Hughes & Luce Llp | 1 | 0% |
| Robert A Mclauchlan | 1 | 0% |
What Technologies Are Driving CrowdStrike’s Patent Portfolio?
CrowdStrike’s patent portfolio is built mainly around computing and cybersecurity infrastructure, with especially strong activity in technologies related to data processing, network security, threat detection, and system protection. The portfolio also extends into AI and machine learning, cloud security, application security, identity protection, behavioral analytics, and automated response, showing that CrowdStrike is protecting a much broader security stack than endpoint protection alone.
The more interesting signal is how these areas are starting to converge. Recent inventions increasingly combine AI with malware and threat analysis, cloud environments with application security, identity with authentication and attack detection, and large-scale telemetry with automated decision-making. This suggests CrowdStrike’s IP strategy is moving toward protecting the intelligence layer that connects endpoint, cloud, identity, and security operations into one platform.
The key areas to watch are therefore the intersections rather than individual technology buckets. Clusters such as AI + threat detection, identity + behavioral analytics, cloud + application security, and telemetry + automated response can reveal where CrowdStrike is building the deepest technical differentiation and where future platform expansion is most likely to emerge.
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