Ripple Patents

Patent portfolio assigned to Ripple (verified via public assignee records). Estimated patent count: 18. Crypto/cross-border payments (Ripple Labs, US). Customers from Ripple's own customers page (logos). Competitors from FXC Top-100 list coverage and CCN comparison. Patents confirmed: Google Patents assignee 'Ripple Labs Inc.' (US11386404B2 temporary consensus subnetwork). Count estimate ~18 granted (GreyB); patent_count_estimate=18.