Where does Intellectual Ventures II LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intellectual Ventures II LLC ranks #2,329 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 II LLC hold?

Intellectual Ventures II LLC holds 168 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Intellectual Ventures II LLC's Innovation Score?

Intellectual Ventures II LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.8 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Intellectual Ventures II LLC's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 II LLC's patents?

Intellectual Ventures II LLC's patents average 20.2 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 Intellectual Ventures II 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 II LLC

Q: What technology areas does Intellectual Ventures II LLC focus on?

Intellectual Ventures II LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 84 patents. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 168 granted patents across 34 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Intellectual ranks #2,329 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 168 patents across 34 technology areas.

#2,329
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.8/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2329 · US Corporation #2,329 · 168 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 168 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,329/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Erbe Elektromedizin
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nissha · near

57
Danieli & C… · near

57
Intellectual… · this assignee

57
Joy Global Undergrou… · near

57
Vrije Universiteit… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intellectual's Innovation Score is 56.8/100 (top 6% 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.

Where Intellectual's grants concentrate

Intellectual Ventures II LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (24 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2020. By volume, Intellectual sits between Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH and Netronome Systems, Inc..

Intellectual's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Intellectual Ventures II LLC moved from 38 to 36 grants (0.95x 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 #1,331. See the growth leaderboard.

Erbe Elektromediz…

168
Extreme Networks

168
General Electric…

168
Ingersoll-rand In…

168
Korea Research In…

168
Magna Exteriors

168
NLT

168
Netronome Systems

168
Intellectual Vent… ◀

168

What this shows Intellectual holds 168 patents at rank #2,329, 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 #2,329 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.P.A. 57 Joy Global Underground Mining LLC 57 Vrije Universiteit Brussel 57 Nissha Co., Ltd. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.2 here).

Accenture Global Services Limited 20.2 avg Oncomed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 20.2 avg Sony Network Entertainment International LLC 20.2 avg Mobile Technology Corporation 20.2 avg

Intellectual's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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.

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Intellectual Ventures II LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	14.3%
2016	24	14.3%
2017	16	9.5%
2018	22	13.1%
2019	16	9.5%
2020	8	4.8%
2021	14	8.3%
2022	14	8.3%
2023	9	5.4%
2024	13	7.7%
2025partial year	8	4.8%

Which technologies does Intellectual Ventures II LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 84

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 76

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 39

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 24

H04B - Transmission 24

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 16

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 15

H04J - Multiplex Communication 12

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 12

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 11

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 11

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 10

H04M - Telephonic Communication 10

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 9

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 9

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,329

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Intellectual Ventures II LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,329 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intellectual Ventures II LLC against Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.8/100 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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