Where does Collateral Opportunities, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Collateral Opportunities, LLC ranks #5,827 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 Collateral Opportunities, LLC hold?

Collateral Opportunities, LLC holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Collateral Opportunities, LLC's Innovation Score?

Collateral Opportunities, LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Collateral Opportunities, LLC focus on?

Collateral Opportunities, LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 40 patents, ranking #427 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Collateral Opportunities, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Collateral Opportunities, LLC's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Collateral Opportunities, LLC's patents?

Collateral Opportunities, LLC's patents average 18.5 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 Collateral Opportunities, LLC 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

Collateral Opportunities, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Collateral ranks #5,827 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 24 technology areas.

#5,827
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5827 · US Corporation #5,827 · 58 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,827/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asensus Surgical US
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asensus Surgical US, Inc. (±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 Collateral’s 46.9 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 14.1 pts (30%) Velocity 4.3 pts (9%) Breadth 17.3 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Elbit Systems OF… · near

47
Synthetic Genomics · near

47
Ametek · near

47
Collateral Opportuni… · this assignee

47
HIA · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Collateral's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 Collateral?

Each dot is one of Collateral’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). Collateral’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Collateral's grants concentrate

Collateral Opportunities, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 69% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Collateral sits between Asensus Surgical US, Inc. and Conagen Inc..

Collateral's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Collateral Opportunities, LLC moved from 23 to 15 grants (0.65x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Asensus Surgical…

58
Aydeekay

58
Berg Companies

58
Cerence Operating

58
Carlisle Fluid

58
Carlson Pet Produ…

58
Compagnie Gervais…

58
Conagen

58
Collateral Opport… ◀

58

What this shows Collateral holds 58 patents at rank #5,825, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Collateral

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,825 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Collateral, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Collateral ranks #427 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Ametek, Inc. 47 HIA Technologies, Inc. 47 Synthetic Genomics, Inc. 47 Elbit Systems OF America, LLC 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

Microsemi Storage Solutions (U.S.), Inc. 18.5 avg SeeScan, Inc. 18.5 avg SiLC Technologies, Inc. 18.5 avg Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH 18.5 avg

Collateral's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Collateral Opportunities, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	3.4%
2017	3	5.2%
2018	13	22.4%
2019	11	19.0%
2020	6	10.3%
2021	6	10.3%
2022	5	8.6%
2023	7	12.1%
2024	3	5.2%
2025partial year	2	3.4%

Which technologies does Collateral Opportunities, LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 40

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 20

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 12

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 12

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 11

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 4

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 4

H04B - Transmission 4

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 3

Top 15 of 24 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

Collateral Opportunities, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Collateral Opportunities, LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 69% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #5,827 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Collateral Opportunities, LLC against Asensus Surgical US, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.