Where does M&K Holdings Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), M&K Holdings Inc. ranks #4,634 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 M&K Holdings Inc. hold?

M&K Holdings Inc. holds 76 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is M&K Holdings Inc.'s Innovation Score?

M&K Holdings Inc. has an Innovation Score of 22.5 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does M&K Holdings Inc. focus on?

M&K Holdings Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 73 patents, ranking #263 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

Is M&K Holdings Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

M&K Holdings Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -88% 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 M&K Holdings Inc.'s patents?

M&K Holdings Inc.'s patents average 3.5 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 M&K Holdings 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 Foreign Corporation

M&K Holdings Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 76 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, M&k ranks #4,634 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 76 patents across 1 technology areas.

#4,634
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.5/100): 3.5
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4634 · Foreign Corporation #4,634 · 76 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 76 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,634/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kinestral
CPC-NARROW H04N · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kinestral 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 M&k’s 22.5 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 15.0 pts (67%) Velocity 1.9 pts (8%) Breadth 3.5 pts (16%) Claim depth 2.1 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Snacktops · near

23
G AND E International · near

23
Kimura Kohki · near

23
M&K Holdings · this assignee

23
3G Licensing · near

23
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows M&k's Innovation Score is 22.5/100 (10th percentile 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 M&k?

Each dot is one of M&k’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). M&k’s own 3.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where M&k's grants concentrate

M&K Holdings Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 96.1% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (25 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, M&k sits between Kinestral Technologies, Inc. and Nuvectra Corporation.

M&k's three-year grant acceleration

M&K Holdings Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Kinestral

76
KPR U S

76
Kyushu Institute…

76
Livsmed

76
Meiji Seika Pharma

76
Medtronic Advance…

76
Nanjing Universit…

76
Nuvectra

76
M&K Holdings ◀

76

What this shows M&K holds 76 patents at rank #4,632, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near M&K

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,632 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in M&K's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for M&K, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), M&K ranks #263 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (23 here).

Kimura Kohki Co., Ltd. 23 G AND E International LLC 23 Snacktops, Inc. 23 3G Licensing S.A. 23

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (3.5 here).

Cambro Manufacturing Company 3.5 avg Shenzhen Antop Technology Co., Ltd. 3.5 avg Natura COSMÉTICOS S.A. 3.4 avg Thermos L.L.C. 3.4 avg

M&k's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

View data table

M&K Holdings Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	11.8%
2016	18	23.7%
2017	25	32.9%
2018	15	19.7%
2019	1	1.3%
2020	2	2.6%
2021	4	5.3%
2022	1	1.3%
2023	1	1.3%

Which technologies does M&K Holdings Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 73

Top 1 of 1 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

M&K Holdings Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

M&K Holdings Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 96.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #4,634 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare M&K Holdings Inc. against Kinestral Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.5/100 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.