Where does Wickr Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wickr Inc. ranks #4,992 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 Wickr Inc. hold?

Wickr Inc. holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Wickr Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Wickr Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.7 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Wickr Inc. focus on?

Wickr Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 65 patents, ranking #538 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Wickr Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -65% 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 Wickr Inc.'s patents?

Wickr Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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 Wickr 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

Wickr Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 9 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wickr ranks #4,992 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 9 technology areas.

#4,992
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.7/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4992 · US Corporation #4,992 · 70 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,992/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ty-Flot
CPC-NARROW H04L · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ty-Flot, 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 Wickr’s 36.7 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 14.7 pts (40%) Velocity 0.2 pts (1%) Breadth 10.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Inno-Pak · near

37
EchoSense · near

37
NextVR · near

37
Wickr · this assignee

37
Zepp · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wickr's Innovation Score is 36.7/100 (top 46% 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 Wickr?

Each dot is one of Wickr’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). Wickr’s own 18.6 claims/patent is at or below the 19.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Wickr's grants concentrate

Wickr Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 92.9% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (23 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Wickr sits between Ty-Flot, Inc. and Astex Therapeutics Limited.

Wickr's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wickr Inc. moved from 27 to 1 grants (0.04x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Ty-flot

70
University of Vie…

70
Veltek Associates

70
Wabtec Holding

70
Wickr ◀

70
Ali

69
AOB Products

69
ASM International

69
Astex Therapeutics

69

What this shows Wickr holds 70 patents at rank #4,992, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wickr

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,992 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wickr, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Wickr ranks #538 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

NextVR Inc. 37 Zepp, Inc. 37 EchoSense, LLC 37 Inno-Pak, LLC 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

THE University OF Liverpool 18.6 avg Workhorse Group Inc. 18.6 avg Visa U.S.A. Inc. 18.6 avg OneSubsea IP UK Limited 18.6 avg

Wickr's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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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.

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Wickr Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.9%
2016	1	1.4%
2017	23	32.9%
2018	16	22.9%
2019	10	14.3%
2020	12	17.1%
2021	5	7.1%
2023	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Wickr Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 65

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 42

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 24

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 18

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

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 2

H04B - Transmission 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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

Wickr Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 92.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #4,992 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wickr Inc. against Ty-Flot, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.7/100 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

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.