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 50,000 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 (top 60% 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. 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 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 3 technology areas.

#8,965
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 60%
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 #8,965/50,000
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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Probiotical S p a · near

32
Redpine Signals · near

32
Flowcardia · near

32
Hangzhou Biotest Bio… · near

32
Winklevoss IP · this assignee

32
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Winklevoss IP, Llc stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-NARROW, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-DENSE, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #8,965 of 50,000; Innovation Score 32.2/100 sits in the top 60% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Fairlife, Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Winklevoss IP, Llc has been granted 36 US utility patents between 2016 and 2021, placing Winklevoss IP, Llc at #8,965 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 3 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 22.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in G06Q (INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,). As a US Corporation, Winklevoss IP, Llc is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Winklevoss sits between Vieworks Co., Ltd. (36 patents, rank #8,960) and 2724889 Ontario Inc. (35 patents, rank #8,968) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 32.2/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 17 grants, compared with 19 in the 2015–2019 window, a -11% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Winklevoss IP, Llc's 22.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 3 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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).

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 Top 60% higher than 40% of 50,000 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,965

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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