Where does John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust ranks #10,365 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 John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust hold?

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's Innovation Score?

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust has an Innovation Score of 33.9 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust focus on?

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 29 patents, ranking #1,521 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's recent grant velocity is -93% 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 John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's patents?

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's patents average 20.1 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 John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust 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

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, John ranks #10,365 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 8 technology areas.

#10,365
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.9/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10365 · US Corporation #10,365 · 30 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,365/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jabil Optics Germany
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jabil Optics Germany GmbH (±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 John’s 33.9 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 11.9 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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ROE Visual · near

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III Holdings 4 · near

34
John Nicholas and… · this assignee

34
Ostara Nutrient… · near

34
Apollo Education Group · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows John's Innovation Score is 33.9/100 (46th 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 John?

Each dot is one of John’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). John’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where John's grants concentrate

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 96.7% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, John sits between J.J. Mackay Canada Limited and Knu-industry Cooperation Foundation.

J J Mackay Canada

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Jarllytec

30
Jetoptera

30
Jabil Optics Germ…

30
KCI USA

30
Kendrion (Villing…

30
Knipex-werk C Gus…

30
Knu-industry Coop…

30
John Nicholas and… ◀

30

What this shows John holds 30 patents at rank #10,365, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near John

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,365 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for John, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), John ranks #1,521 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

III Holdings 4, LLC 34 Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. 34 ROE Visual Co Ltd 34 Apollo Education Group, Inc. 34

John's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	26.7%
2016	11	36.7%
2017	9	30.0%
2020	2	6.7%

Which technologies does John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

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 18

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 6

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

Top 8 of 8 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

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 96.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #10,365 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust against J.J. Mackay Canada Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.9/100 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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