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Elka International Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Elka ranks #39,998 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 5 technology areas.

#39,998
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
16th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.1/100)
11.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39998 · Foreign Corporation #39,998 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
  • LOWER-Q #39,998/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Silk Road (Shenzhen)…
  • CPC-NARROW H01R · 5 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 25.1/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electronic Silk Road (Shenzhen) Tech Co., Ltd. (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Elka

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Elka's Innovation Score is 25.1/100 (16th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where Elka's grants concentrate

Elka International Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Elka sits between Electronic Silk Road (Shenzhen) Tech Co., Ltd. and Elum Inc..

Elka's three-year grant acceleration

Elka International Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Who files at Elka's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Elka holds 6 patents at rank #40,057, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Elka

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,057 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Elka's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 16th percentile higher than 16% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

0.511.522.533.5 202020222025 3
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Elka International Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2020 2 33.3%
2022 1 16.7%
2025partial year 3 50.0%

Which technologies does Elka International Ltd. patent most?

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#39,998

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

25.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Elka International Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Elka International Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
  • Ranked #39,998 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Elka International Ltd. against Electronic Silk Road (Shenzhen) Tech Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 25.1/100 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

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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

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.