Where does i4F Licensing NV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), i4F Licensing NV ranks #5,079 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 i4F Licensing NV hold?

i4F Licensing NV holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is i4F Licensing NV's Innovation Score?

i4F Licensing NV has an Innovation Score of 65.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does i4F Licensing NV focus on?

i4F Licensing NV's top technology area is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors) with 66 patents, ranking #6 of 584 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is i4F Licensing NV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for i4F Licensing NV.

What does claim depth mean for i4F Licensing NV's patents?

i4F Licensing NV's patents average 23.6 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 i4F Licensing NV 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 Foreign Corporation

i4F Licensing NV

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 22 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: E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, i4f ranks #5,079 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 22 technology areas.

#5,079
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.4/100): 23.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5079 · Foreign Corporation #5,079 · 68 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,079/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH emz-Hanauer & KGaA
CPC-FOCUS E04F · 22 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA (±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 i4f’s 65.4 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 14.6 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 16.6 pts (25%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ExxonMobil Chemical… · near

65
Fresenius Medical… · near

65
i4F Licensing · this assignee

65
Virginia Tech… · near

65
Apollo Intelligent… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows i4f's Innovation Score is 65.4/100 (top 1% 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 i4f?

Each dot is one of i4f’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). i4f’s own 23.6 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.

i4f vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where i4f's grants concentrate

i4F Licensing NV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 97.1% of grants classified under E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (18 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, i4f sits between WD Media, LLC and Adey Holdings (2008) Limited.

i4f's three-year grant acceleration

i4F Licensing NV shows 35 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

WD Media

68
Woven Planet Nort…

68
Zodiac Aerotechni…

68
emz-hanauer & Kgaa

68
zspace

68
i4f Licensing ◀

68
AAC Optics (Suzho…

67
Academisch Zieken…

67
Adey Holdings (20…

67

What this shows i4F holds 68 patents at rank #5,131, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near i4F

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,131 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in i4F's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for i4F, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings), i4F ranks #6 of 584 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. 65 Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. 65 ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. 65 Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (BEIJING) Technology Co., Ltd. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.6 here).

Conviva Inc. 23.6 avg Gecko Robotics, Inc. 23.6 avg GN Hearing A/S 23.6 avg Largan Precision Co., Ltd. 23.6 avg

i4f's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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i4F Licensing NV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	8	11.8%
2021	2	2.9%
2022	7	10.3%
2023	10	14.7%
2024	18	26.5%
2025partial year	23	33.8%

Which technologies does i4F Licensing NV patent most?

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 66

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 21

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 6

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 5

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 3

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 1

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 1

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

Top 15 of 22 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

i4F Licensing NV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

i4F Licensing NV's lead technology class is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors), 97.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04F
Ranked #5,079 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare i4F Licensing NV against WD Media, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.4/100 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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