Where does Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC ranks #5,684 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 Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC hold?

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's Innovation Score?

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.7 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC focus on?

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 34 patents, ranking #494 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's recent grant velocity is -32% 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 Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's patents?

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's patents average 16.6 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 Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 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

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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, Intellectual ranks #5,684 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 21 technology areas.

#5,684
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.7/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5684 · US Corporation #5,684 · 60 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,684/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ineos Europe
CPC-FOCUS H04W · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ineos Europe AG (±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 Intellectual’s 48.7 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 14.2 pts (29%) Velocity 8.3 pts (17%) Breadth 16.2 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crown Packaging… · near

49
Crystal IS · near

49
George Mason… · near

49
Intellectual… · this assignee

49
Oce- B V · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intellectual's Innovation Score is 48.7/100 (top 16% 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 Intellectual?

Each dot is one of Intellectual’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). Intellectual’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Intellectual's grants concentrate

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 56.7% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (8 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2020. By volume, Intellectual sits between Ineos Europe AG and Kimree Hi-tech Inc.

Intellectual's three-year grant acceleration

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Ineos Europe

60
Inventus Engineer…

60
ITT Italia S r l

60
Insurance Service…

60
Juki

60
Janssen Sciences…

60
Kepco Nuclear Fuel

60
Kimree Hi-tech

60
Intellectual Vent… ◀

60

What this shows Intellectual holds 60 patents at rank #5,685, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intellectual

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,685 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Intellectual, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Intellectual ranks #494 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Crystal IS, Inc. 49 George Mason Research Foundation, Inc. 49 Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. 49 Oce-technologies B.V. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

Abbott Point of Care Inc. 16.6 avg Sandia Corporation 16.6 avg Shenzhen Heytap Technology Corp., Ltd. 16.6 avg Lighting Science Group Corporation 16.6 avg

Intellectual's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	13.3%
2016	8	13.3%
2017	8	13.3%
2018	6	10.0%
2019	4	6.7%
2020	3	5.0%
2021	5	8.3%
2022	3	5.0%
2023	5	8.3%
2024	7	11.7%
2025partial year	3	5.0%

Which technologies does Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 34

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 11

H04B - Transmission 8

H04J - Multiplex Communication 6

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 4

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H03K - Pulse Technique 3

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G11C - Static Stores 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 56.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #5,684 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC against Ineos Europe AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.7/100 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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