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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Winkk, Inc. ranks #9,934 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 Winkk, Inc. hold?

Winkk, Inc. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Winkk, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Winkk, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.8 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Winkk, Inc. focus on?

Winkk, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 29 patents, ranking #1,009 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Winkk, Inc..

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

Winkk, Inc.'s patents average 23.5 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 Winkk, 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

Winkk, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Winkk ranks #9,934 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 9 technology areas.

#9,934
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.8/100): 23.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9934 · US Corporation #9,934 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,934/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Weatherford U K
CPC-NARROW H04L · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Weatherford U.K. 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 Winkk’s 56.8 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 12.1 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 10.6 pts (19%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Op-hygiene IP · near

57
Optum Technology · near

57
Sumco · near

57
Winkk · this assignee

57
Mettler-Toledo · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Winkk's Innovation Score is 56.8/100 (top 6% 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 Winkk?

Each dot is one of Winkk’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). Winkk’s own 23.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Winkk's grants concentrate

Winkk, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 90.6% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Winkk sits between Webasto-edscha Cabrio GMBH and XM Cyber Ltd..

Winkk's three-year grant acceleration

Winkk, Inc. shows 24 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.

Webasto-edscha Ca…

32
WET

32
Weatherford U K

32
Willow Innovations

32
Wrap

32
X One

32
Xiamen Water Nymp…

32
XM Cyber

32
Winkk ◀

32

What this shows Winkk holds 32 patents at rank #9,933, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Winkk

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,933 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Winkk, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Winkk ranks #1,009 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Optum Technology, Inc. 57 Op-hygiene IP GMBH 57 Sumco Corporation 57 Mettler-Toledo GmbH 57

Winkk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Winkk, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	3.1%
2022	1	3.1%
2023	10	31.3%
2024	13	40.6%
2025partial year	7	21.9%

Which technologies does Winkk, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 29

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

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 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 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

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

Winkk, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 90.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #9,934 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Winkk, Inc. against Webasto-edscha Cabrio GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.8/100 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

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