Where does Headwater Research LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Headwater Research LLC ranks #3,081 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 Headwater Research LLC hold?

Headwater Research LLC holds 123 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Headwater Research LLC's Innovation Score?

Headwater Research LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Headwater Research LLC focus on?

Headwater Research LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 123 patents, ranking #179 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Headwater Research LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Headwater Research LLC's recent grant velocity is +46% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Headwater Research LLC's patents?

Headwater Research LLC's patents average 16.2 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 Headwater Research 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

Headwater Research LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 123 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Headwater ranks #3,081 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 123 patents across 8 technology areas.

#3,081
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: +46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3081 · US Corporation #3,081 · 123 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 123 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,081/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH EndoChoice
CPC-NARROW H04W · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: EndoChoice, 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 Headwater’s 42.3 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 16.7 pts (39%) Velocity 5.9 pts (14%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Conviva · near

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Headwater Research · this assignee

42
Kangwon National… · near

42
Litens Automotive… · near

42
Vermes Microdispensing · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Headwater's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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 Headwater?

Each dot is one of Headwater’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). Headwater’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Headwater's grants concentrate

Headwater Research LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (21 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2021. By volume, Headwater sits between EndoChoice, Inc. and May Patents Ltd..

Headwater's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Headwater Research LLC moved from 45 to 40 grants (0.89x 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 #1,519. See the growth leaderboard.

Endochoice

123
Everi Games

123
Futaba Industrial

123
Festo SE & KG

123
Knorr-bremse Syst…

123
Lifetime Products

123
MPI

123
May Patents

123
Headwater Research ◀

123

What this shows Headwater holds 123 patents at rank #3,081, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Headwater

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,081 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Headwater, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Headwater ranks #179 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Litens Automotive Partnership 42 Conviva Inc. 42 Kangwon National University University-Industry Cooperation Foundation 42 Vermes Microdispensing GMBH 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

MONDAY.COM Ltd. 16.2 avg Vodafone IP Licensing Limited 16.2 avg ConsumerInfo.com, Inc. 16.2 avg Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Co., Ltd. 16.2 avg

Headwater's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Headwater Research LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	12	9.8%
2018	16	13.0%
2019	18	14.6%
2020	21	17.1%
2021	6	4.9%
2022	14	11.4%
2023	11	8.9%
2024	15	12.2%
2025partial year	10	8.1%

Which technologies does Headwater Research LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 123

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 102

H04M - Telephonic Communication 90

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 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 19

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

Top 8 of 8 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

Headwater Research LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Headwater Research LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #3,081 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Headwater Research LLC against EndoChoice, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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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