Where does III Holdings 12, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), III Holdings 12, LLC ranks #1,340 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 III Holdings 12, LLC hold?

III Holdings 12, LLC holds 315 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is III Holdings 12, LLC's Innovation Score?

III Holdings 12, LLC has an Innovation Score of 62.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does III Holdings 12, LLC focus on?

III Holdings 12, LLC's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 167 patents, ranking #364 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

Is III Holdings 12, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

III Holdings 12, LLC's recent grant velocity is -61% 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 III Holdings 12, LLC's patents?

III Holdings 12, LLC's patents average 19.4 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 III Holdings 12, 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

III Holdings 12, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 315 granted patents across 50 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, III ranks #1,340 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 315 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,340
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.3/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1340 · US Corporation #1,340 · 315 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 315 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,340/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Manufacturing…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 50 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -61% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Manufacturing Resources International, 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 III’s 62.3 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 19.9 pts (32%) Velocity 5.7 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fortinet · near

62
III Holdings 12 · this assignee

62
Rondo Energy · near

62
STMicroelectronics… · near

62
University of… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows III's Innovation Score is 62.3/100 (top 2% 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 III?

Each dot is one of III’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). III’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How III's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, III Holdings 12, LLC received 88 grants versus 227 in 2015–2019 (-61% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 61 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 16. Lead class G06F accounts for 53% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: University of Kansas (#1,336) and Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (#1,344).

III's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, III Holdings 12, LLC moved from 58 to 50 grants (0.86x 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 #1,622. See the growth leaderboard.

University of Kan…

317
Cummins Filtratio…

316
On-bright (Shangh…

316
THE University OF…

316
Manufacturing Res…

315
Masonite

315
III Holdings 12 ◀

315
Furuno Electric

314
Sensor Technology

314

What this shows III holds 315 patents at rank #1,340, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near III

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,340 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for III, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), III ranks #364 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

University of British Columbia 62 Fortinet, Inc. 62 STMicroelectronics (Tours) SAS 62 Rondo Energy, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC 19.4 avg Silicon Laboratories Inc. 19.4 avg CA, Inc. 19.4 avg Siemens Healthineers International AG 19.4 avg

III's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

III Holdings 12, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	61	19.4%
2016	53	16.8%
2017	55	17.5%
2018	38	12.1%
2019	20	6.3%
2020	21	6.7%
2021	17	5.4%
2022	16	5.1%
2023	17	5.4%
2024	17	5.4%

Which technologies does III Holdings 12, LLC patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 167

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 115

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 87

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 47

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 40

G11C - Static Stores 38

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 26

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 23

H04B - Transmission 22

H04M - Telephonic Communication 21

H04J - Multiplex Communication 17

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 15

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 15

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 12

Top 15 of 50 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

III Holdings 12, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

III Holdings 12, LLC's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 53% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,340 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare III Holdings 12, LLC against University of Kansas, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.3/100 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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