Where does Mutualink, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mutualink, Inc. ranks #7,165 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 Mutualink, Inc. hold?

Mutualink, Inc. holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Mutualink, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Mutualink, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mutualink, Inc. focus on?

Mutualink, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 36 patents, ranking #865 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

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

Mutualink, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +14% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Mutualink, Inc.'s patents?

Mutualink, Inc.'s patents average 22.5 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 Mutualink, 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

Mutualink, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 17 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mutualink ranks #7,165 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 17 technology areas.

#7,165
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 22.5
avg claims per patent: +14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7165 · US Corporation #7,165 · 46 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,165/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lagom Kitchen
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lagom Kitchen Co. (±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 Mutualink’s 46.5 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 13.3 pts (29%) Velocity 5.1 pts (11%) Breadth 14.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Artemis Intelligent… · near

46
ASP Global Manufactu… · near

46
Mutualink · this assignee

46
Provisur · near

46
Unity Semiconductor · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mutualink's Innovation Score is 46.5/100 (top 21% 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 Mutualink?

Each dot is one of Mutualink’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). Mutualink’s own 22.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mutualink's grants concentrate

Mutualink, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 78.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Mutualink sits between Liebherr-aerospace Toulouse SAS and Nissha Printing Co., Ltd..

Mutualink's three-year grant acceleration

Mutualink, Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Liebherr-aerospac…

46
Lagom Kitchen

46
Los Angeles Biome…

46
Megadyne Medical…

46
Marquette Univers…

46
Menasha

46
Mustang Sampling

46
Nissha Printing

46
Mutualink ◀

46

What this shows Mutualink holds 46 patents at rank #7,161, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mutualink

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,161 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mutualink, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Mutualink ranks #865 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Artemis Intelligent Power Limited 46 Provisur Technologies, Inc. 46 ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH 46 Unity Semiconductor 46

Mutualink's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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.

View data table

Mutualink, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.2%
2016	1	2.2%
2017	7	15.2%
2018	6	13.0%
2019	6	13.0%
2020	7	15.2%
2021	4	8.7%
2022	3	6.5%
2023	4	8.7%
2024	6	13.0%
2025partial year	1	2.2%

Which technologies does Mutualink, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 36

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 31

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 20

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 10

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 5

H04B - Transmission 4

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 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

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

Top 15 of 17 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

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

Mutualink, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 78.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #7,165 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mutualink, Inc. against Liebherr-aerospace Toulouse SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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.