Where does Waikatolink Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Waikatolink Limited ranks #30,585 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 Waikatolink Limited hold?

Waikatolink Limited holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Waikatolink Limited's Innovation Score?

Waikatolink Limited has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Waikatolink Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Waikatolink Limited's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Waikatolink Limited's patents?

Waikatolink Limited's patents average 21.2 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 Waikatolink Limited 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

Waikatolink Limited

Q: What technology areas does Waikatolink Limited focus on?

Waikatolink Limited's top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 4 patents, ranking #1,136 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Waikatolink ranks #30,585 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 11 technology areas.

#30,585
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 21.2
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30585 · Foreign Corporation #30,585 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #30,585/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Warburton Technology
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Warburton 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 Waikatolink’s 39.1 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 8.0 pts (20%) Velocity 6.7 pts (17%) Breadth 11.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Waikatolink · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Waikatolink's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 Waikatolink?

Each dot is one of Waikatolink’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). Waikatolink’s own 21.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Waikatolink's grants concentrate

Waikatolink Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Waikatolink sits between Win&win Co. Ltd. and Well Master Corporation.

Waikatolink's three-year grant acceleration

Waikatolink Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Win&win

9
Wiworld

9
Wmware

9
WP

9
Warburton Technol…

9
Watchguard

9
Webomates

9
Well Master

9
Waikatolink ◀

9

What this shows Waikatolink holds 9 patents at rank #30,576, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Waikatolink

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,576 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Waikatolink's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Waikatolink Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	66.7%
2016	1	11.1%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Waikatolink Limited patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 1

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

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

Waikatolink Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Waikatolink Limited's lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #30,585 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Waikatolink Limited against Win&win Co. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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.