Where does Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC ranks #37,028 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 Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC hold?

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's Innovation Score?

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC has an Innovation Score of 30.0 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's patents?

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's patents average 17.4 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 Pontus Subsea Connectors 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

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC

Q: What technology areas does Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC focus on?

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 6 patents, ranking #475 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pontus ranks #37,028 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 5 technology areas.

#37,028
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.0/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37028 · US Corporation #37,028 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #37,028/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH PolyN Technology
CPC-NARROW H01R · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: PolyN Technology Limited (±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 Pontus’s 30.0 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 7.2 pts (24%) Velocity 4.4 pts (15%) Breadth 7.9 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Pontus Subsea… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pontus's Innovation Score is 30.0/100 (33rd 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 Pontus?

Each dot is one of Pontus’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). Pontus’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pontus's grants concentrate

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Pontus sits between PolyN Technology Limited and Potter Electric Signal Company, LLC.

Pontus's three-year grant acceleration

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Polyn Technology

7
Polysign

7
Polytainers

7
Polytech A/S

7
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7
Positec Technolog…

7
Potenza Therapeut…

7
Potter Electric S…

7
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7

What this shows Pontus holds 7 patents at rank #37,042, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pontus

By rank, the assignees closest to #37,042 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Pontus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	28.6%
2019	2	28.6%
2020	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%
2023	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 6

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #37,028 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pontus Subsea Connectors LLC against PolyN Technology Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.0/100 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

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