Where does Belkin International, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Belkin International, Inc. ranks #2,249 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 Belkin International, Inc. hold?

Belkin International, Inc. holds 174 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Belkin International, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Belkin International, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.6 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Belkin International, Inc. focus on?

Belkin International, Inc.'s top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 72 patents, ranking #273 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Belkin International, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Belkin International, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -84% 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 Belkin International, Inc.'s patents?

Belkin International, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Belkin International, 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

Belkin International, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 174 granted patents across 35 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Belkin ranks #2,249 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 174 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,249
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.6/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2249 · US Corporation #2,249 · 174 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 174 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,249/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Argo AI
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Argo AI, LLC (±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 Belkin’s 51.6 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 17.8 pts (34%) Velocity 2.3 pts (4%) Breadth 20.9 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Belkin International · this assignee

52
Everspin · near

52
Tsudakoma Kogyo · near

52
Headway · near

52
Kyoraku · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Belkin's Innovation Score is 51.6/100 (top 11% 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 Belkin?

Each dot is one of Belkin’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). Belkin’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Belkin's grants concentrate

Belkin International, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 41.4% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (45 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Belkin sits between Safran Landing Systems and Joseph Joseph Ltd..

Belkin's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Belkin International, Inc. moved from 35 to 12 grants (0.34x 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 #2,948. See the growth leaderboard.

Safran Landing Sy…

175
Shenzhen First Un…

175
SZ DJI Osmo Techn…

175
Argo AI

174
Edgewell Personal…

174
Florida Foundatio…

174
Fresenius Kabi De…

174
Joseph Joseph

174
Belkin Internatio… ◀

174

What this shows Belkin holds 174 patents at rank #2,249, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Belkin

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,249 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Belkin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Belkin ranks #273 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Everspin Technologies, Inc. 52 Tsudakoma Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 52 Kyoraku Co., Ltd. 52 Headway Technologies, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

KING.COM Limited 17.6 avg Dish Network Technologies India Private Limited 17.6 avg Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd. 17.6 avg Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. 17.6 avg

Belkin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Belkin International, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	11.5%
2016	23	13.2%
2017	35	20.1%
2018	45	25.9%
2019	24	13.8%
2020	7	4.0%
2021	4	2.3%
2022	3	1.7%
2023	6	3.4%
2024	3	1.7%
2025partial year	4	2.3%

Which technologies does Belkin International, Inc. patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 72

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 71

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 26

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 15

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 12

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 10

H04Q - Selecting 10

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 9

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

H04B - Transmission 8

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 7

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Belkin International, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Belkin International, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 41.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #2,249 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Belkin International, Inc. against Safran Landing Systems, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.6/100 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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