Centripetal Networks, Inc.

Centripetal Networks, Inc. is a privately held cybersecurity company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. The company also has offices in New Hampshire and Galway, Ireland. As a private entity, its specific revenue and detailed financials are not publicly disclosed, though some sources estimate its annual revenue at around $24 million and employee count between 80 and 115. Centripetal has received venture capital funding, with total fundraising reported between $8 million and $33.3 million.

Centripetal is an operating company that provides intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions. Its flagship offering is CleanINTERNET, a managed service that uses a threat intelligence gateway to proactively block known cyber threats in real-time. The platform aggregates threat data from thousands of sources and applies it at the network edge to prevent attacks before they can infiltrate a client's network. The company's core products include the RuleGate network appliance, which filters network packets at high speed based on millions of security rules, and the QuickThreat analytics platform. Centripetal serves a range of sectors, including government, defense, finance, and healthcare.

The company's patent litigation posture is that of an operating company asserting its own patents. The provided data shows Centripetal Networks as a plaintiff in one case before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and as a defendant in none. This pattern is consistent with an operating company enforcing its intellectual property rights rather than a non-practicing entity (NPE).

The notable tracked case is Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Keysight Technologies, Inc. et al., an action filed at the ITC in 2022. Centripetal alleged that Keysight's network monitoring products infringed on its patents related to correlating data packets in communications networks. In August 2023, an ITC administrative law judge found no violation, a decision later affirmed by the Commission and upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in April 2026. The court found that Centripetal failed to establish the "technical prong" of the domestic industry requirement for its asserted product. Centripetal has also been involved in patent validity challenges at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) against other technology companies, including Palo Alto Networks.