Where does Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC ranks #1,902 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 Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC hold?

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC holds 211 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's Innovation Score?

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC has an Innovation Score of 57.7 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC focus on?

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 183 patents, ranking #235 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's recent grant velocity is +554% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's patents?

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's patents average 23.0 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 Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, 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

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 211 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Strong ranks #1,902 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 211 patents across 32 technology areas.

#1,902
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.7/100): 23.0
avg claims per patent: +554%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1902 · US Corporation #1,902 · 211 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 211 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,902/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Airbus Helicopters…
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +554% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Airbus Helicopters Deutschland 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 Strong’s 57.7 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 18.5 pts (32%) Velocity 5.4 pts (9%) Breadth 20.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 13.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Macroblock · near

58
Overhead Door · near

58
Particle Measuring… · near

58
Strong Force IoT… · this assignee

58
Thomas Jefferson… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Strong's Innovation Score is 57.7/100 (top 5% 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 Strong?

Each dot is one of Strong’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). Strong’s own 23.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Strong's grants concentrate

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 86.7% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (55 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Strong sits between UNIVERSITÉ D'aix-marseille and Atlassian US, Inc..

Strong's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC moved from 108 to 87 grants (0.81x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,827. See the growth leaderboard.

UniversitÉ D'aix-…

212
Airbus Helicopter…

211
GE Energy Power C…

211
Rosenberger Hochf…

211
Sun Chemical

211
Westinghouse Air…

211
Xyzprinting

211
Strong Force Iot… ◀

211
Atlassian US

210

What this shows Strong holds 211 patents at rank #1,902, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Strong

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,902 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Strong, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Strong ranks #235 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Thomas Jefferson University 58 Overhead Door Corporation 58 Macroblock, Inc. 58 Particle Measuring Systems, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.0 here).

Quantum-Si Incorporated 23.0 avg Afiniti, Ltd. 23.0 avg Markforged, Inc 23.0 avg Bioverativ Therapeutics Inc. 23.0 avg

Strong's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.5%
2019	25	11.8%
2020	36	17.1%
2021	47	22.3%
2022	55	26.1%
2023	22	10.4%
2024	10	4.7%
2025partial year	15	7.1%

Which technologies does Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 183

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 163

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 161

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 160

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 158

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 152

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 141

H04B - Transmission 113

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 110

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 109

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 103

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 94

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 93

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 93

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 93

Top 15 of 32 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

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 86.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,902 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC against UNIVERSITÉ D'aix-marseille, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.7/100 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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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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