Where does Malibu Boats, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Malibu Boats, LLC ranks #12,539 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 Malibu Boats, LLC hold?

Malibu Boats, LLC holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Malibu Boats, LLC's Innovation Score?

Malibu Boats, LLC has an Innovation Score of 50.9 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Malibu Boats, LLC focus on?

Malibu Boats, LLC's top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 24 patents, ranking #23 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Malibu Boats, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Malibu Boats, LLC's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Malibu Boats, LLC's patents?

Malibu Boats, LLC's patents average 28.2 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 Malibu Boats, 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

Malibu Boats, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 13 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Malibu ranks #12,539 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 13 technology areas.

#12,539
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.9/100): 28.2
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12539 · US Corporation #12,539 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,539/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magnolia Optical
CPC-FOCUS B63B · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magnolia Optical Technologies, 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 Malibu’s 50.9 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 11.1 pts (22%) Velocity 12.0 pts (24%) Breadth 12.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Malibu Boats · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Malibu's Innovation Score is 50.9/100 (top 12% 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 Malibu?

Each dot is one of Malibu’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). Malibu’s own 28.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Malibu's grants concentrate

Malibu Boats, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Malibu sits between Mobility Holdings, Limited and Meadow Burke, LLC.

Malibu's three-year grant acceleration

Malibu Boats, LLC shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Mobility Holdings

24
Monotony AI

24
MTT Innovation In…

24
Magnolia Optical

24
Marius Pharmaceut…

24
Masco of Indiana

24
Matrox Systems

24
Meadow Burke

24
Malibu Boats ◀

24

What this shows Malibu holds 24 patents at rank #12,554, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Malibu

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,554 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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

Malibu's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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.

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Malibu Boats, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	3	12.5%
2017	3	12.5%
2018	2	8.3%
2019	3	12.5%
2020	1	4.2%
2021	1	4.2%
2022	2	8.3%
2023	2	8.3%
2024	5	20.8%

Which technologies does Malibu Boats, LLC patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 24

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 6

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 6

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

B60D - Vehicle Connections 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Malibu Boats, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Malibu Boats, LLC's lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #12,539 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Malibu Boats, LLC against Mobility Holdings, Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.9/100 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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