Where does IP Holding Company LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), IP Holding Company LLC ranks #2,628 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 IP Holding Company LLC hold?

IP Holding Company LLC holds 148 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is IP Holding Company LLC's Innovation Score?

IP Holding Company LLC has an Innovation Score of 64.4 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 IP Holding Company LLC focus on?

IP Holding Company LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 29 patents, ranking #565 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

Is IP Holding Company LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

IP Holding Company LLC's recent grant velocity is -95% 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 IP Holding Company LLC's patents?

IP Holding Company LLC's patents average 7.5 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 IP Holding Company 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

IP Holding Company LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 148 granted patents across 41 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, IP ranks #2,628 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 148 patents across 41 technology areas.

#2,628
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.4/100): 7.5
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2628 · US Corporation #2,628 · 148 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 148 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,628/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Casale
CPC-WIDE H04W · 41 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Casale SA (±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 IP’s 64.4 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 17.3 pts (27%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 22.6 pts (35%) Claim depth 4.5 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Siemens Healthineers… · near

64
BSH Hausgeräte · near

64
IP Holding · this assignee

64
National Oilwell Varco · near

64
Yangzhou University · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows IP's Innovation Score is 64.4/100 (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 IP?

Each dot is one of IP’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). IP’s own 7.5 claims/patent is at or below the 12.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where IP's grants concentrate

IP Holding Company LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 19.6% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (50 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, IP sits between Casale SA and Ocient Holdings LLC.

IP's three-year grant acceleration

IP Holding Company LLC shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Casale

148
Deutsches Zentrum…

148
Elo Touch Solutio…

148
FIH (HONG KONG)

148
Knowbe4

148
Maschinenfabrik R…

148
Mitsubishi Aircra…

148
Ocient Holdings

148
IP Holding ◀

148

What this shows IP holds 148 patents at rank #2,628, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near IP

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,628 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for IP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), IP ranks #565 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

National Oilwell Varco, L.P. 64 BSH Hausgeräte GmbH 64 Yangzhou University 64 Siemens Healthineers International AG 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.5 here).

Tsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd. 7.5 avg American Greetings Corporation 7.5 avg PassiveLogic, Inc. 7.5 avg Sakata INX Corporation 7.5 avg

IP's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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IP Holding Company LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	32	21.6%
2016	43	29.1%
2017	50	33.8%
2018	13	8.8%
2019	1	0.7%
2022	2	1.4%
2023	3	2.0%
2024	2	1.4%
2025partial year	2	1.4%

Which technologies does IP Holding Company LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 29

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 23

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

H04M - Telephonic Communication 18

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

H04B - Transmission 16

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 14

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 13

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 12

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 12

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 10

H04Q - Selecting 10

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

Top 15 of 41 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

IP Holding Company LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

IP Holding Company LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 19.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #2,628 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare IP Holding Company LLC against Casale SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.