Where does Microlink Devices, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Microlink Devices, Inc. ranks #24,801 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 Microlink Devices, Inc. hold?

Microlink Devices, Inc. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Microlink Devices, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Microlink Devices, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Microlink Devices, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Microlink Devices, Inc.'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 Microlink Devices, Inc.'s patents?

Microlink Devices, Inc.'s patents average 23.6 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 Microlink Devices, 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

Microlink Devices, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Microlink Devices, Inc. focus on?

Microlink Devices, Inc.'s top technology area is H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation) with 11 patents, ranking #231 of 1,370 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 11 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: H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Microlink ranks #24,801 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 11 technology areas.

#24,801
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 23.6
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24801 · US Corporation #24,801 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,801/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mhwirth
CPC-FOCUS H10F · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mhwirth 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.

How Microlink’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 8.6 pts (23%) Velocity 3.3 pts (9%) Breadth 11.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (38%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eaton Cummins… · near

38
Keysight Singapore… · near

38
Microlink Devices · this assignee

38
Otics · near

38
West Coast Imports · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Microlink's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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 Microlink?

Each dot is one of Microlink’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). Microlink’s own 23.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Microlink's grants concentrate

Microlink Devices, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Microlink sits between Mhwirth GMBH and Miraenanotech Co., Ltd..

Microlink's three-year grant acceleration

Microlink Devices, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Mhwirth

11
Michigan Health I…

11
Microbion

11
Microdata

11
Micron

11
Microsemi Frequen…

11
Mininvasive

11
Miraenanotech

11
Microlink Devices ◀

11

What this shows Microlink holds 11 patents at rank #24,752, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Microlink

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,752 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Rad…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Microlink, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Rad…), Microlink ranks #231 of 1,370 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Tech., LLC 38 West Coast Imports, Inc. 38 Otics Corporation 38 Keysight Technologies Singapore (HOLDINGS) PTE. Ltd. 38

Microlink's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% 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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Microlink Devices, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	2	18.2%
2017	1	9.1%
2019	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	1	9.1%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Microlink Devices, Inc. patent most?

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 11

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 3

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 3

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 2

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

Top 11 of 11 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

Microlink Devices, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Microlink Devices, Inc.'s lead technology class is H10F (Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10F
Ranked #24,801 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Microlink Devices, Inc. against Mhwirth GMBH, 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

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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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