Where does FreeWheel Media, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FreeWheel Media, Inc. ranks #10,929 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 FreeWheel Media, Inc. hold?

FreeWheel Media, Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is FreeWheel Media, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

FreeWheel Media, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does FreeWheel Media, Inc. focus on?

FreeWheel Media, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 19 patents, ranking #806 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is FreeWheel Media, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for FreeWheel Media, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for FreeWheel Media, Inc.'s patents?

FreeWheel Media, Inc.'s patents average 22.1 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 FreeWheel Media, 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

FreeWheel Media, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Freewheel ranks #10,929 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 6 technology areas.

#10,929
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 22.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10929 · US Corporation #10,929 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,929/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fecon
CPC-NARROW H04N · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fecon, 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 Freewheel’s 53.5 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 11.6 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 8.7 pts (16%) Claim depth 13.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FreeWheel Media · this assignee

54
Pfeiffer Vacuum · near

54
Powermat · near

54
simplehuman · near

54
The Coleman · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Freewheel's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 Freewheel?

Each dot is one of Freewheel’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). Freewheel’s own 22.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Freewheel's grants concentrate

FreeWheel Media, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 67.9% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Freewheel sits between Fujian Eastwest Lifewit Technology Co., Ltd and Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Sinopec Corp..

Freewheel's three-year grant acceleration

FreeWheel Media, Inc. shows 23 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.

Fujian Eastwest L…

28
Fecon

28
Firefly Automatix

28
Flowcardia

28
Freezio

28
Fresh Idea Global

28
Fullstory

28
Fushun Research I…

28
Freewheel Media ◀

28

What this shows FreeWheel holds 28 patents at rank #10,930, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FreeWheel

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,930 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FreeWheel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), FreeWheel ranks #806 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Pfeiffer Vacuum 54 Powermat Technologies Ltd. 54 The Coleman Company, Inc. 54 simplehuman, LLC 54

Freewheel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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FreeWheel Media, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	7.1%
2022	6	21.4%
2023	8	28.6%
2024	9	32.1%
2025partial year	3	10.7%

Which technologies does FreeWheel Media, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 19

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 17

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 5

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 2

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 6 of 6 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

FreeWheel Media, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FreeWheel Media, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 67.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #10,929 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FreeWheel Media, Inc. against Fujian Eastwest Lifewit Technology Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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

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