Where does Machine Zone Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Machine Zone Inc. ranks #8,068 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 Machine Zone Inc. hold?

Machine Zone Inc. holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Machine Zone Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Machine Zone Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Machine Zone Inc. focus on?

Machine Zone Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 29 patents, ranking #1,009 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Machine Zone Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Machine Zone Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Machine Zone Inc.'s patents?

Machine Zone Inc.'s patents average 25.3 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 Machine Zone Inc. 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

Machine Zone Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Machine ranks #8,068 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 8 technology areas.

#8,068
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 25.3
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8068 · US Corporation #8,068 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,068/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MacKay Memorial…
CPC-NARROW H04L · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MacKay Memorial Hospital (±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 Machine’s 37.8 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 12.8 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (26%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abbvie Stemcentrx · near

38
FedEx Supply Chain… · near

38
Machine Zone · this assignee

38
Powertech Industrial · near

38
Tomey · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Machine's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 42% 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 Machine?

Each dot is one of Machine’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). Machine’s own 25.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Machine's grants concentrate

Machine Zone Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 72.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Machine sits between Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited and NEC (China) Co., Ltd..

Mitsubishi Electr…

40
MKW Alloy

40
MRI Interventions

40
Mackay Memorial H…

40
Marelli

40
Markem-imaje

40
Milacron

40
NEC (China)

40
Machine Zone ◀

40

What this shows Machine holds 40 patents at rank #8,075, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Machine

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,075 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Machine, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Machine ranks #1,009 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Powertech Industrial Co., Ltd. 38 Abbvie Stemcentrx LLC 38 Tomey Corporation 38 FedEx Supply Chain Logistics & Electronics, Inc. 38

Machine's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Machine Zone Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	20.0%
2016	15	37.5%
2017	14	35.0%
2018	2	5.0%
2020	1	2.5%

Which technologies does Machine Zone Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 29

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

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 21

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Machine Zone Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Machine Zone Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 72.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #8,068 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Machine Zone Inc. against Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.8/100 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

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.