Where does Winklevoss IP, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Winklevoss IP, LLC ranks #8,965 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 Winklevoss IP, LLC hold?

Winklevoss IP, LLC holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Winklevoss IP, LLC's Innovation Score?

Winklevoss IP, LLC has an Innovation Score of 32.2 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Winklevoss IP, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Winklevoss IP, LLC's recent grant velocity is -11% 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 Winklevoss IP, LLC's patents?

Winklevoss IP, LLC's patents average 22.7 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 Winklevoss IP, 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

Winklevoss IP, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Winklevoss IP, LLC focus on?

Winklevoss IP, LLC's top technology area is 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) with 28 patents, ranking #487 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Winklevoss ranks #8,965 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 3 technology areas.

#8,965
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.2/100): 22.7
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8965 · US Corporation #8,965 · 36 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,965/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH fairlife
CPC-NARROW G06Q · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: fairlife, LLC (±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 Winklevoss’s 32.2 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 12.5 pts (39%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 6.1 pts (19%) Claim depth 13.6 pts (42%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Probiotical S P A · near

32
Redpine Signals · near

32
FlowCardia · near

32
Hangzhou Biotest… · near

32
Winklevoss IP · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Winklevoss's Innovation Score is 32.2/100 (40th 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 Winklevoss?

Each dot is one of Winklevoss’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). Winklevoss’s own 22.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Winklevoss's grants concentrate

Winklevoss IP, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 77.8% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Winklevoss sits between Vieworks Co., Ltd. and 2724889 Ontario Inc..

Vieworks

36
Voicebox

36
Voxer IP

36
Wi-fi One

36
Wista Laboratories

36
Won-door

36
fairlife

36
Winklevoss IP ◀

36
2724889 Ontario

35

What this shows Winklevoss holds 36 patents at rank #8,964, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Winklevoss

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,964 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Winklevoss, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Winklevoss ranks #487 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Hangzhou Biotest Biotech Co., Ltd. 32 FlowCardia, Inc. 32 Probiotical S.P.A. 32 Redpine Signals, Inc. 32

Winklevoss's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Winklevoss IP, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.8%
2017	1	2.8%
2018	9	25.0%
2019	8	22.2%
2020	6	16.7%
2021	11	30.6%

Which technologies does Winklevoss IP, LLC patent most?

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 28

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 17

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

Top 3 of 3 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

Winklevoss IP, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Winklevoss IP, LLC's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #8,965 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Winklevoss IP, LLC against Vieworks Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.2/100 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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